Title: Annotations Author: John Keene ISBN: 9780811213042 Publisher: New Directions Published: 1995 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Illustrated Number of Pages: 96 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: 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.
