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Percussion Grenade: Poems & Plays by McSweeney, Joyelle, 1976- is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Percussion Grenade: Poems & Plays about?

Music and drama as weapons of productive destruction. This collection by prize-winning, massively influential literary star Joyelle McSweeney explodes the twinned and dangerous notions that images are pretty, and that they land predictably. Power struggles in all contexts and the driving ever-presence of a lexicon of puissance make this a bracing read, not for the faint of heart or mind. From "Guadaloop": Just inside the cutters pavilion Just at the peak of the oxygen tent Just on the inner lid of the hairline coma Just on the inner thighs of the medical canal Just up under the gesso of lubrication Just up to the hairline of the hairline crack Just there where the adolescent girl eyes the camera Just under the burden of her fishscale hair Just where one sister shoulders the other Just why should one sister have to shoulder the other Just while out of the frame the globe unshouldered rolls around like a boulder in the mouth Just the whole world like a wadded-up burden in the mouth Joyelle McSweeney is the author of five books, including The Red Bird , chosen by Allen Grossman to inaugurate the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2001. McSweeney is a co-founder of Action Books and Action, Y

Who reads Percussion Grenade: Poems & Plays?

Author

McSweeney, Joyelle, 1976-

Publisher

Fence Books ; Consortium Book Sales & Distribution [distributor

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781934200520

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.7 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14