Mr. West (Wesleyan Poetry Series)Identities are formed and broken in this unauthorized lyric biography Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebritiesto their portrayal in the mediaand how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person's public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake's aesthetics take her work from

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