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portada faster than light: new and selected poems, 1996-2011
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2013
Language
English
Pages
162
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.6x15.2x1.5 cm
Weight
0.25 kg.
ISBN
0807147346
ISBN13
9780807147344
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faster than light: new and selected poems, 1996-2011

Marilyn Nelson (Author) · LSU Press · Paperback

faster than light: new and selected poems, 1996-2011 - Nelson, Marilyn

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Synopsis "faster than light: new and selected poems, 1996-2011"

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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