Best Barbarian: Poems -- Roger Reeves, Hardcover Media Tie-In ISBN: 9781916094116

ISBN: 9781916094116

But as he starts to think for himself

Achilles Kallis may have been born with nothing

once considered too controversial to publish

-Mehmet Oz

Best Barbarian: Poems -- Roger Reeves, Hardcover Media Tie-In ISBN: 9781916094116The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U. S. Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the police have killed a Black man. Daring and formally elegant, Best Barbarian asks the reader: "Who has not been an entryway shuddering in the wind Of another's want, a rose nailed to