St. Trigger (Button Poetry Contest Winner)

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Poetry. African & African American Studies. "Aaron Colemans undeniable ST. TRIGGER breaks open the conflicted masculinities in the fist-heavy spaces around Black America. Through his hard-hitting sonic verses all of the frustrations pushing against Blackness in 2016the insistent danger the unforgiving partisanship the violenceare transformed into necessary resilience. There is so much beauty here too in Colemans dexterous imagery. But even in the elegant spaces these poems are looking over their shoulder just to be safe. As the speaker of Elegy for Apogee asks How close is absurdity is irrelevance is danger?Adrian Matejka