Bright Felon

Author: Kazim Ali
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 081956916X

Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

This groundbreaking, transgenre work--part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past--is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Get Bright Felon literature books for free.
Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long held. The text is comprised of sentences that alternate in time, ranging from discursive essay to memoir to prose poetry. Art, history, politics, geography, love, sexuality, writing, and religion, and the role silence plays in each, are its interwoven themes. Bright Felon is literally "autobiography" because the text itself becomes a form of writing the life, Check Bright Felon our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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