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    Even this page is white / Vivek Shraya.

    • Title:[Poems. Selections]
      Even this page is white / Vivek Shraya.
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    • Author/Creator:Shraya, Vivek, 1981- author.
    • Published/Created:Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2016].
      ©2016.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Canadian poetry--21st century.
    • Genre/Form:Poetry.
    • Description:115 pages ; 21 cm
    • Summary:"This debut poetry collection by Vivek Shraya . . . is a bold, timely, and personal interrogation of skin--its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding of what it means to be racialized. Shraya paints the face of everyday racism with words, rendering it visible, tangible and undeniable"--Page 4 of cover.
    • Notes:Poems.
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-114).
    • ISBN:9781551526416 (paperback)
      1551526417 (paperback)
    • Contents:White Dreams:
      White Dreams
      Indian
      Amiskwaciwaskahikan
      Fair
      Talc
      Antaryami
      Even this Stage
      Raji
      Birth Certificate Says M
      Cycle Of Violence
      Whitespeak:
      A Lover's Bookshelf
      Yellowface
      What Pride Sounded Like June 24, 2015
      54, 216 Signed Petition to Ban Kanye West From Playing Pan Am Games Closing Ceremony
      #Oscarssowhite
      Miley, What's Good?
      How to Talk to a White Person:
      Saraswati
      Eraser
      Count the Brown People
      #Notallwhitepeople
      A Dog Named Lavender
      The Truth About the Race Card
      You are so Articulate
      Conversation with White Friends
      The one Thing you can do
      Thank you for Naming all of your Privileges
      Hail Mary
      The Origins of Skin:
      Prologue / Gestation
      One Birth
      Two Childhood
      Three Adolescence
      Four Adulthood
      Epilogue / Decomposition
      Brown Dreams:
      Call in Sick
      Often Brown Feels Like But
      How to Not Disappoint you Completely
      When I Feel Jealous
      Omar
      Under the Pink
      Muscle
      Agnostic
      Skeptic
      Vishvarupa
      How Many Books Have to be Written?
      Brown Dreams.
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