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Winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize
In his second collection of poetry, Reginald Harris traverses real and imagined landscapes, searching for answers to the question “What are you?” From Baltimore to Havana, Atlantic City to Alabama—and from the broad memories of childhood to the very specific moment of Marvin Gaye singing at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game shortly before his death—this is a travel diary of internal and external journeys exploring issues of race and sexuality. The poet traveler falls into and out of love and lust, sometimes coupled, sometimes alone. Autogeography tracks how who you are changes depending on where you are; how where you are and where you’ve been determine who you are and where you might be headed.
- Sales Rank: #2976256 in Books
- Published on: 2013-04-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .30" w x 6.13" l, .30 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 84 pages
Review
"Auto meaning self or same, and Geography meaning earth writing. In Autogeography, Harris explores the geographies that have written his identity as an African American and as a gay male. His stylistically diverse collection is personal, contemporary, marked by the rhythms of African American music, inventive, and filled with a disarming wit.
In "The Poet Behind the Wheel," Harris writes of the poet: "Do NOT let him drive you: / Buckle up and hours later / Who knows where you'll arrive"—advice readers will be happy to ignore as Autogeography travels through a landscape of personal lyrics, descriptive portraits, and historical witness.
This is poetry that wants to speak to readers and not above them. He walks the streets you walk, sees the people you see, feels—especially in "The Lost Boys: A Requiem"— the same heart-breaking despair over the plight of African American males (drugs, violence, AIDS, urban ruin) that you feel. Harris is driving and readers are lucky to be in the passenger seat."—Janice Harington
"In Autogeography, Harris gives us the gift of quickening the treasure of black culture in poems that touch the enduring spirit of black people. He has baptized himself in that significant and signifying wellspring, the song of the African American quotidian. The poet celebrates black life and the way it connects to humanity, the bright woven cloth of all our lives. This book is the hoodoo ring shout call and response for love."--Afaa Michael Weaver
About the Author
Reginald Harris is information technology director and coordinator of poetry in the branches for Poets House in New York City. The recipient of Individual Artist Awards for both poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a Cave Canem fellow, his first book, 10 Tongues (2001), was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the ForeWord Book of the Year. His poetry, fiction, reviews, and articles have appeared in numerous journals and websites, including 5am, African American Review, Gargoyle, and Sou’wester Journal; and in the anthologies Best Gay Poetry 2008 and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A Poet of Courage and Grace
By Michael Salcman
From its terrific title emphasizing the importance of place (i.e. Baltimore), in personal development and poetry, "Autogeography" is a book that hews closely to the poet's experiences as both a black and a gay man in a Southern environment not necessarily congruent to his personal concerns. Harris writes in an attractive telegraphic way, his nouns usually shorn of adornment, his words spit out in almost a hip-hop rhythm. His themes of place, community and family are handled with deceptive ease. Most of the time Harris reveals a deft use of nonce forms, traditional forms and careful attention to syllabic count and music. In a few cases he seems to randomly spread the words even further across the white space of the page (a la school of Jorie Graham) and neither the sound nor sense of the poems appear to benefit. The collection begins with the charming "The Poet Behind The Wheel", a poem that welcomes the reader into the poet's geographic journey, and continues with many fine poems that have previously appeared in literary journals: "East Side Alphabetics", the wonderful "Crying Man With Broom" and "Gospel". When some of the poems give voice to anger it is always with regret and not in a manner that distances the reader; poems such as the moving and inventive "The Man With My Name" and "The Lost Boys: A Requiem" are good examples. The eight-line "Packing" closes the collection with a drumbeat. When Reggie Harris left our town (in part) for a bigger city up north, the writing community in Baltimore lost the warmth of his presence but now we have the poems as compensation. That's a whole lot more than simply something. And he still comes back from time to time.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
On the Road and On the City Streets
By Robin Friedman
"The poet behind the wheel/is dangerous" as Reginald Harris warns the reader in the opening poem of his aptly titled collection of poetry, "Autogeography". Harris, the recipient of awards from the Maryland State Arts Council currently serves as information technology director and coordinator of Poetry in the Branches at Poets House, New York City. "Autogeography" received the 20120 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize. This prize, offered every other year, is a second book award for African American poets which "celebrates and publishes works of lasting cultural value and literary excellence."
The book moves from the road to places. Harris explores his understanding experiences and his understanding of himself as a gay African American man. The roughly 40 poems in the collection have a tough, gritty, but introspective tone. Harris uses a variety of forms from traditional sonnets, to free verse, to prose poems. He pays a great deal of attention to the spacing and forms of the lines on the page. Most of the time, he does so effectively.
The poems carry to reader to a variety of places large and small including New York City, Atlantic City, Washington, D.C., Havana, Cuba, Atlanta, Pascagoula, Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama, and Jasper, Texas, which Harris his visited in life or imagination. A sonnet, "Among the Players" captures a scene I know well with the chess players, "undisturbed grand masters of the streets" at DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C. The most frequent setting for the poems is Baltimore. Here is how Harris describes his feelings about Baltimore in "Approaching Baltimore", the second poem in the collection.
"Learn to live with, love, imperfection,
the close enough to right, whatever
will make do (Magic City, Magic City, ya'll). Handsome men with
knife scars across the face, exhausted
women dragging three tattered chidren
down the street. What happens to a dream
transferred, outsourced, shuttered, boarded
up? Which ways take you in, and which way out? And what grows there?
Magic City, Magic City, ya'll Got that Magic City, Magic City, ya'll"
Another excellent description of Baltimore is in the poem "Baltimore Uproar", inspired by a painting of Romare Bearden.
Besides exploring city streets and byways, Harris describes his life, his relationships with his family, discovering his sexual orientation, and the memories of his love affairs, successful and unsuccessful. Poems such as the sonnet "Leatherboy", "Atlantic City", and "Trailer Park Self-Portrait" offer raw portrayals of sexuality. Their tone is both sharp and reflective rather than self-pitying. The poem "The Lost Boys: A Requiem" explores the world of young African American men who succumbed to AIDS or to the many other perils of inner city life. Harris also frequently gets out of himself by writing about other people and about places. For example "Gospel" describes a woman singing as she leaves a city bus, leaving the passengers to "Contemplate/a God-shaped echo in the air." The sonnet "Crying Man with a Broom" tells the story of a poor, aging man reflecting upon a long forgotten broom, "the only relic of his former life". In "The Poets at the Ball Game" and "Marvin Gaye sings 'The Star-Spangled Banner', Harris combines poetry and arts with American sports in a fresh way.
"Autogeography" is an excellent second book by a young American poet who writes in his own distinctive voice.
Robin Friedman
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Excellent
By Louis Hughes
Excellent poem and writing of a gifted poet. Can not wait for more. Grads!! More and more of your writtings are needed in our LBGTQ community.
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