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  • Pages (Paperback Edition): 118
  • Genre: Poetry
  • Reading Level: Adult
  • Author Name: Woods, Scott
  • ISBN: Paperback: 9781938190308
  • BC Catalogue ID: BCB2016002
Urban Contemporary History Month by Scott Woods book cover

In his second full length collection, Scott Woods further interrogates the intersection of identity and society, exposing the frequently imposed and false duality of twenty-first century Black life by a world that prefers its art and people in neat boxes.

The poems of Urban Contemporary History Month navigate multiple sides of the issues it raises – police abuse, idol worship, the definition of Black culture, and the importance of the blues chief among them – chipping away at our understanding and acceptance of American life as we know it. The collection includes extended meditations on juke joint culture, art as a communal projection, and a cento comprised entirely of the first lines of Stephen King stories. Both personal and quietly polemic, Urban Contemporary History Month is a sly, knowing collection told with the trademark humor and intellectual nuance Woods is frequently praised for.

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