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This Elegance - by Derrick Austin (Paperback)

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  • Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione ("sacred conversation"), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space.
  • Author(s): Derrick Austin
  • 85 Pages
  • Poetry, American

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Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione ("sacred conversation"), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists, thinkers, and pop icons commune in a similar sacred dialogue--Kathleen Collins, André Leon Talley, Richmond Barthé, Lyle Ashton Harris, Juan de Pareja, Janelle Monáe, Symone, and others appear as guiding spirits and creative kin.

For a Black, queer person so often dislocated from time and place, pleasure becomes an act of resistance--a grounding in the now. This Elegance is a love song--an offering to Black artistry, a tribute to visionary lives, and a testament to the power of beauty in even our most precarious moments.




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"Austin's poems are bounded by conditions of extremity, but unfold, with delicacy and in repose, between those conditions." --Ray McDaniel, The Constant Critic

"In Austin's hands, the exquisite can be ominous while the grotesque can turn charming, and his poems wisely assert that the world is unforgiving and yet full of mercy--that one can question beauty and yet still be beholden to it." --Publishers Weekly

"Austin is a lyrical architect, rendering with urgency and plain-spokenness what is arguably the most challenging kind of loneliness: that experienced amidst others." --Phillip B. Williams, NPR


Dimensions (Overall): 8.7 Inches (H) x 5.8 Inches (W) x .3 Inches (D)
Weight: .4 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 85
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: BOA Editions
Theme: African American
Format: Paperback
Author: Derrick Austin
Language: English
Street Date: May 5, 2026
TCIN: 1004993168
UPC: 9781960145949
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-3113
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Q: What themes are explored in this book?

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Q: Who is the author of this poetry collection?

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