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A Love Tap
WADE BERNARDO
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Summary
Bernardo Wade’s A Love Tap—introduced by award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay—reckons with complexities of racial identity, masculinity, recovery, and spirituality, revealing the narrative and psychic evolution of a poet who has found himself in the language.
Wade’s evocative debut swaggers?through time, through family, through love, through the perseverance of growing up in the deep South as a Black son with a white mom. Illustrating?the?strangeness and cacophony of his native New Orleans, he divines sweet relief in small mercies—a rosary strung with Mardi Gras beads, a Sunday football game, Nigel Hall covering Frankie Beverly in Lafayette Square, bare feet in a stream, a mother kneading dough. In intimate, nuanced portraits of loved ones, in requiems and broken sestinas, he pushes past his trauma, troubling the years he spent in addiction or resenting his father.
As he maps out the parts he played in his life’s most formative moments, he can’t help but “retune the heart / strings of hard men,” teaching us how to become more human, often in the face of inhumanity.?Here, he manages to land, not a crushing blow, but a?love tap—the softest way to knuckle another’s cheek.
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$26.50
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Author:
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WADE BERNARDO
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Title:
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A Love Tap
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Release date:
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31 October 2025
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LABORATORY BOOKS
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Subject:
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POESIE-AUTRE
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ISBN:
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9781940596587 (19405965811)
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Renaud-Bray Reference:
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21466711
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Item nb:
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4435228
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A Love Tap
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WADE BERNARDO
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LABORATORY BOOKS
2025
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