SOCIAL SCIENCES

King Me

by Roger Reeves
Copper Canyon. Nov. 2013. 72p. ISBN 9781556594489. pap. $15. POETRY
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In this history-soaked first book from Reeves, he turns to young black men who have been deemed expendable, again and again. Full of elegies, praise songs, testaments, and suffering: "a punctured lullaby in my throat."
Reviewed by Molly McArdle , Nov 01, 2013
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