AnnotationsAn experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer's Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles--from race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight). Employing all manner of textual play and rhythmic and rhetorical maneuvers, he (re)creates his life story as a jazz fugue-in-words. |
Contents
Section 1 | 11 |
Section 2 | 15 |
Section 3 | 19 |
Section 4 | 25 |
Section 5 | 29 |
Section 6 | 33 |
Section 7 | 37 |
Section 8 | 41 |
Section 10 | 51 |
Section 11 | 55 |
Section 12 | 59 |
Section 13 | 63 |
Section 14 | 67 |
Section 15 | 71 |
Section 16 | 75 |
Section 9 | 45 |
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