dying in the scarecrow's arms: Poems [Paperback]

In urgent newpoems, Mitchell L. H. Douglas depicts the assault on people of color inAmericas increasingly divided Heartland. A devotee of American popularculture, fromrock n roll to Star Wars to Marvel comic books, Douglas now wonders whetherwe will withstand its most odious, self-destructive elements in this searingcollection.In his third book Mitchell L. H. Douglas delivers a lyric bildungsroman, a hymnal of manhood, eerily guided from page one by Etheridge Knight, who, like Douglas, lived a full life at the cursed cross of Kentucky or Indiana, enslavement or liberation, incarceration or career. What does it mean to make love, grocery shop, make it home, each night, safe?A rebuke of American racism and violence by apoet of scrutinizing intellect, imagination, and soul (Terrance Hayes).