Kontemporary Amerikan poetry
"A writer traces his history--brushes with violence, responses to threat, poetic and political solidarity--in poems of lyric and narrative urgency. John Murillo's second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against African Americans and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a father's fists; a workout at an i...