The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Annotations, John Keene

Annotations

John Keene

Reader Score

84%

84% of readers

recommend this book

An 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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publish Date: Oct 17th, 1995
  • Pages: 96
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.01in - 5.27in - 0.28in - 0.25lb
  • EAN: 9780811213042
  • Categories: Alternative HistoryLGBTQ+ - GayLiterary

More books to explore

Book Cover for: Bob the Book, David Pratt
Book Cover for: Christodora, Tim Murphy
Book Cover for: Mitko (Miami University Press Fiction), Garth Greenwell
Book Cover for: God Says No, James Hannaham
Book Cover for: So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Book Cover for: Basement of Wolves, Daniel Allen Cox
Book Cover for: The Short History of a Prince, Jane Hamilton
Book Cover for: Cast in Doubt, Lynne Tillman
Book Cover for: Hold Tight, Christopher Bram
Book Cover for: Where the Rainbow Ends, Jameson Currier
Book Cover for: The Forever Marathon, Jameson Currier
Book Cover for: Naked Lunch: The Restored Text, William S. Burroughs Jr
Book Cover for: Insignificant Others, Stephen McCauley
Book Cover for: Alternatives to Sex, Stephen McCauley
Book Cover for: The Thief's Journal, Jean Genet

About the Author

Keene, John: - John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including Annotations (1995) and Counternarratives (2015), both published by New Directions. Counternarratives received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Republic of Consciousness Prize (UK), and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His most recent publication, Punks: New & Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021), received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, he is Distinguished Professor and serves as department chair at Rutgers University-Newark

More books by John Keene

Book Cover for: Punks, John Keene
Book Cover for: Counternarratives, John Keene