Faster Than Light

New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011

Autor: Marilyn Nelson

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Editura: Louisiana State University Press

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Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores wid...

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Autor

Marilyn Nelson

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2012

Pagini

176

EAN

9780807147344

ISBN

0807147346

Enbook ID

11029305

Editura

Louisiana State University Press

Greutate

282

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 18

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Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities. Poems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857 for the creation of Central Park. "Bivouac in a Storm" tells the story of a group of young soldiers, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, as they trained near Biloxi, Mississippi, "marching in summer heat / thick as blackstrap molasses, under trees / haunted by whippings." Later pieces range from the poet's travels in Africa, Europe, and Polynesia, to poems written in collaboration with Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, a former Benedictine monk and the subject of Nelson's playful fictional fantasy sequence, "Adventure-Monk!" Both personal and historical, these poems remain grounded in everyday details but reach toward spiritual and moral truths.

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