Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's <i>Refuse </i>documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound but the salve, <i> Refuse</i> is a poetry debut that accepts that every song must end before walking confidently into the next music.
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<b>Julian Randall</b> is a Living Queer Black poet from Chicago. He has received fellowships from <i>Callaloo</i>, <i>BOAAT</i>, and <i>The Watering Hole</i> and was the 2015 National College Slam (CUPSI) Best Poet. Julian is the curator of <i>Winter Tangerine Review</i>’s Lineage of Mirrors. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as <i>New York Times Magazine</i>, <i>The Georgia Review</i>, and <i>Sixth Finch</i> and in the anthologies <i>Portrait in Blues</i>, <i>Nepantla</i>, and <i>New Poetry from the Midwest</i>. He is a candidate for his MFA in Poetry at Ole Miss.
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