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Faster Than Light

Marilyn Nelson

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  • 176 sidor
  • 2012
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.
  • Författare: Marilyn Nelson
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780807147344
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 176
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-11-30
  • Förlag: Louisiana State University Press