Best Barbarian

Name: Best Barbarian
ISBN: 9780393609349

by Roger Reeves

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Whiting FoundationApril 1, 2015PoetryISBN 9780393609349

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Roger Reeves is recognized for his debut collection King Me, which meditates on Black history and mythology in poems of extravagant rhetorical power. This record is a writer-level placeholder for his Whiting Award.

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Roger ReevesUS

Roger Reeves is an American poet whose collection Best Barbarian (2022) won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2023. The collection is a searingly beautiful meditation on the Black experience in America, drawing on mythology, history, and the lyric tradition to articulate a vision of Black life that refuses to be defined solely by suffering. Reeves's debut collection King Me (2013) was widely praised and won the Larry Levis Prize and other awards. Read more →