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    Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016
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  • Author: Shraya, Vivek
    Date:
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    2016
    Summary:

    Vivek Shraya's debut collection of poetry is a bold and timely interrogation of skin - its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding of what it means to be racialized. Shraya paints the face of everyday racism with words, rendering it visible, tangible and undeniable. Vivek Shraya is a writer, musician, and filmmaker whose previous books include God Loves Hair and She of the Mountains. She lives in Toronto.

    Contents:
    • White Dreams. White Dreams ; Indian ; Amiskwacîwâskahikan ; Fair ; Talc ; Antaryami ; Even this Stage ; Raji ; Birth Certificate Says M ; Cycle Of Violence
    • Whitespeak. A Lover's Bookshelf ; Yellowface ; What Pride Sounded Like June 24, 2015 ; 54,216 Signed Petition to Ban Kanye West From Playing Pan Am Games Closing Ceremony ; #Oscars2016 ; Miley, What's Good?
    • How to Talk to a White Person. Saraswati ; Eraser ; Count the Brown People ; #Notallwhitepeople ; A Dog Named Lavender ; The Truth About the Race Card ; You are so Articulate ; Conversation with White Friends ; The one Thing you can do ; Thank you for Naming all of your Privileges
    • The Origins of Skin. Prologue / Gestation ; One / Birth ; Two / Childhood ; Three / Adolescence ; Four / Adulthood ; Epilogue / Decomposition
    • Brown Dreams. Call in Sick ; Often Brown Feels Like But ; How to Not Disappoint you Completely ; When I Feel Jealous ; Omar ; Under the Pink ; Muscle ; Agnostic ; Skeptic ; Vishvarupa ; How Many Books Have to be Written? ; Brown Dreams.
    Genre:
    Canadian poetry
    Subject(s): Canadian poetry
    Original Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia, Arsenal Pulp Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781551526423, 1551526425