[EPUB] Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller

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Publisher: Canongate Books Limited
Genres: Nonfiction Books, Memoir Books, Writing & Essays
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Pages: 206 pages
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN10: 1838852794
ISBN13: 9781838852795
Tags: Nonfiction eBooks, Memoir eBooks, Writing & Essays eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub
Language: en
In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit - the crimes that haunt them, and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood. Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Liam Neeson, Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, white women's tears, questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice. With both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his poetry and novels, Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic achievement: a work of beauty which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why - our actions, defence mechanisms, imaginations and interactions - and those of the world around us.

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