[03/27/25] Byrdlong, Bryan: Strange Flowers

Yes Yes, paperback

Publication Date: March 27, 2025

Publisher Marketing: Bryan Byrdlong’s debut Strange Flowers fashions a kind of suit, an armor, a disguise out of the folk and pop cultural creation of the zombie. In response to historical prejudice, but more specifically in response to fear of Black people in America, the poetry in this collection uses the idea of the zombie to offer an unbiased view of Black struggle, the zombie being a suit sometimes forced upon Black people and sometimes worn willingly.