Austin Derrick

This Elegance (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This Elegance is a poetic meditation on beauty, pleasure, and transcendence in a time of collective uncertainty. These poems respond to solitude, grief, and fear with a radical inward turnseeking ecstasy, presence, and the reclamation of self.

Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (sacred conversation), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists, thinkers, and pop icons commune in a similar sacred dialogueKathleen Collins, André Leon Talley, Richmond Barthé, Lyle Ashton Harris, Juan de Pareja, Janelle Monáe, Symone, and others appear as guiding spirits and creative kin.

For a Black, queer body so often dislocated from time and place, pleasure becomes an act of resistancea grounding in the now. This Elegance is a love songan offering to Black artistry, a tribute to visionary lives, and a testament to the power of beauty in even our most precarious moments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781960145956
• Artikelnr.: 75604140

Autorenporträt

Derrick Austin is the author of Tenderness (BOA Editions, 2021), winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, finalist for a Golden Poppy Award, and a Lambda Literary Award; Trouble the Water (BOA, 2016) winner of the A. Poulin Jr, Poetry Prize, finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Thom Gunn Award, Lambda Literary Award, and more. Austin lives in New York, NY.