Description
In his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and community. With the wit and musicality fitting of a 90s baby raised during the Golden age of hip-hop, Cortney Lamar Charleston grapples with the landscapes of Chicago's South Side and surrounding suburbs, and the tensions that impact a Black boy's struggle through self-destructive definitions of manhood. While the language in these poems is playful, Charleston's vulnerability invites readers to intimately witness the speaker's journey from adopted persona to an authentic self that defies traditional molds.
Galley mailing to reps, bookstores, media, and available on request National TV, radio, and print campaign, including interviews, features, and reviews Review copies and pitches to major dailies like New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc. as well as online, Black interest, and poetry and hip-hop outlets like Poetry Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Root, Afropunk, Artforum, The Rumpus, Teen Vogue, Buzzfeed, The Fader, and many others. Major launch events in Chicago, and New York City, and east coast bookstore tour Advertising in Poets and Writers, Poetry, as well as online at LitHub Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's events Promotion through social media: Haymarket Books has 74k Twitter followers and 55k Facebook fans Promotion through the network of BreakBeat Poets authors, supporters, and readers, as well as on the series website www.breakbeatpoets.com
About the Author
Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. He began writing and performing poetry as a member of The Excelano Project when he was an undergraduate studying economics and urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His poetry is a marriage between art and activism, and a call for a more involved and empathetic understanding of the diversity of the human experience. In 2017, Charleston was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He currently serves as poetry editor at The Rumpus.
Reviews
With stunning knowledge and sharp vulnerability, Cortney Lamar Charleston has rendered a classical epic of love, war, and self-discovery, in the tradition of Milton, Homer, and Virgil if they were Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. -Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro "Cortney Lamar Charleston burns his signature into these stanzas. With an unrelenting intimacy, he dares us into a narrative we think we know-Black boy vs. the scheming wiles of the city vs. the rest of his life-then backhand slaps us toward a singular experience marked by choices that can only guide the life of one man." -Patricia Smith, author of Incendiary Art "Cortney Lamar Charleston is one of our most necessary observers of Black boyhood in all its beauty and difficulty. These poems sing to us of us." -Nate Marshall, author of Finna
Book Information
ISBN 9781642592658
Author Cortney Lamar Charleston
Format Paperback
Page Count 100
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books
Galley mailing to reps, bookstores, media, and available on request National TV, radio, and print campaign, including interviews, features, and reviews Review copies and pitches to major dailies like New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc. as well as online, Black interest, and poetry and hip-hop outlets like Poetry Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Root, Afropunk, Artforum, The Rumpus, Teen Vogue, Buzzfeed, The Fader, and many others. Major launch events in Chicago, and New York City, and east coast bookstore tour Advertising in Poets and Writers, Poetry, as well as online at LitHub Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's events Promotion through social media: Haymarket Books has 74k Twitter followers and 55k Facebook fans Promotion through the network of BreakBeat Poets authors, supporters, and readers, as well as on the series website www.breakbeatpoets.com
About the Author
Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. He began writing and performing poetry as a member of The Excelano Project when he was an undergraduate studying economics and urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His poetry is a marriage between art and activism, and a call for a more involved and empathetic understanding of the diversity of the human experience. In 2017, Charleston was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He currently serves as poetry editor at The Rumpus.
Reviews
With stunning knowledge and sharp vulnerability, Cortney Lamar Charleston has rendered a classical epic of love, war, and self-discovery, in the tradition of Milton, Homer, and Virgil if they were Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. -Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro "Cortney Lamar Charleston burns his signature into these stanzas. With an unrelenting intimacy, he dares us into a narrative we think we know-Black boy vs. the scheming wiles of the city vs. the rest of his life-then backhand slaps us toward a singular experience marked by choices that can only guide the life of one man." -Patricia Smith, author of Incendiary Art "Cortney Lamar Charleston is one of our most necessary observers of Black boyhood in all its beauty and difficulty. These poems sing to us of us." -Nate Marshall, author of Finna
Book Information
ISBN 9781642592658
Author Cortney Lamar Charleston
Format Paperback
Page Count 100
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books
