Blasphemy & Difference: The Collected Poems of RC Patterson - Softcover

Patterson, RC

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798907812598

Publisher: Back of the Class Press, 2026

Synopsis

Collected for the first time, the works of RC Patterson from 2013 to the present day.

Blasphemy and Difference is a collection that refuses to sit still. It drags Hegel, Freud, and Alex Jones into the same room as Ferguson, Pruitt-Igoe, and a busted-up love story, and dares them all to make sense of each other. RC Patterson moves from the ruins of segregated St. Louis to the wreckage of American politics, from tender elegies to profane comic sketches, without ever slowing down to apologize.

Dense with philosophical allusion and street-level fury in equal measure, this is poetry for readers who want their language dangerous — obscene, erudite, furious, and occasionally tender, sometimes in the same stanza. Not a book for the faint of heart. A book for the ones still paying attention.

Edition details

• Publisher: Back of the Class Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798907812598
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124