Beneath My Body Armor: An Elegy (signed)

GLOVER, David

ISBN 10: 1662921837 / ISBN 13: 9781662921834

Published by Gatekeeper Press, 2023, 2023

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Pbk, 165pp, boldly SIGNED and warmly INSCRIBED by the author on half-title page, otherwise appears unread and an excellent, clean tight and unmarked copy, as new. Seller Inventory # AP640

Bibliographic Details

Title: Beneath My Body Armor: An Elegy (signed)

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press, 2023

Publication Date: 2023

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis:

What began as a private journey to archive the fragments of his youth for his then absent mother has turned into a meditation and a ritual for wholeness. Beneath my body Armor: An Elegy, is a 2021 book-length series of lyric and percussive poems by American poet David Lawrence Glover. Beneath my body Armor is a collection of observations, revelations, and reflections on black life and love that spans two decades. This debut book of poetry is broken into five sections that range from deeply personal familial accounts, to love songs, raw emotional laments, and direct excerpts from dreams. These poems ring with extraordinary justice--at once melancholic, then monstrous, vulnerable, exposing, and at last like a wound; healing--in a collective portrait of a child once neglected, now a man finding safety and sanctuary within.

About the Author:

David Glover is a poet, playwright, actor and director from Philadelphia. Poetry is his first artistic love and has been his most intimate artistic expression for over twenty years. He is interested in stories that exemplify the full complexity and measures of black life, love, and liberation. His artistic body of work primarily centers identity, history, and home. He holds a BA in Theater from Temple University and has a passion for horticulture and pottery. He resides in a lush plant filled apartment in Brooklyn.
 
This is his debut book of poetry.