Avery B. Frickin' Poem Post

Bury My Clothes: Roger Bonair-Agard


This collection of poems titled Bury My Clothes is the third written collection of Trinidad native, Roger Bonair- Agard. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at a juvenile detention center. His poems usually focus on family and of religion. Many of his poems mention protection of his mother, or conversing with his father; as well as spirits and God. He now lives in Chicago and is a performance artist. Bonair has led countless workshops as well as performed in Germany, Jamaica, Milan and Switzerland.


In his poem "A Time of Polio" Agard talks about his Uncle Edmund (family theme) and how his polio made it difficult to eat the food that Agard and his grandfather took to him. He also has religious references. (Sunday morning, All Saints Day). In his poem "Luck"
"On asking a Black Woman if you might touch her hair"
"The Bible Tells Me So"
I find some of his poems and titles of poems very amusing.


If I was writing a poem I would write about philosophical things. Abstract ideas. And random stuff. Because I find it amusing in writing when authors and poets complicate the simplest things. Or when anyone does really. But its funny because I dislike when things are complicated but to see something as simple as a pencil or as a leaf and turning into something completely out of the ordinary.