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Annotations
by John Keene

    List Price: $12.95
    New Directions Publishing (Oct 01, 1995)
    Fiction, Paperback, 85 pages
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    Praised by Ishmael Reed

    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.

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