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Aurora Americana: Poems

Aurora Americana: Poems

Hardy, Myronn

Paperback

Series: Princeton Contemporary Poets, Book 174

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.95

ISBN10: 069125057X
ISBN13: 9780691250571
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Oct 10 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

From an award-winning poet, an exciting new collection that explores exile and return, from North Africa to North America

In Aurora Americana, Myronn Hardy, an American poet who moved back to the United States after living for years in Morocco, reflects on exile and return as he describes the experience of leaving North Africa and rediscovering a North America both recognizable and unrecognizable. What does it mean to feel exiled both away from and at home? What does it mean to miss something?

In forms such as the sonnet, ghazal, and triolet, Aurora Americana takes up the distant and recent past of the United States, from Thomas Jefferson to the deadly Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Virginia. But the book also meditates on smaller, momentary encounters across racial and national barriers, from evocations of Francophone Africa to a screening of Black Panther in Portugal for a mostly white audience. Allusions to Fannie Lou Hamer, Frantz Fanon, Prince, John Coltrane, Alessandro de' Medici, Ahmed Zaki, Modesto Brocos y Gómez, Nasser Zefzafi, and others anchor the collection. With poems set at or near dawn, Aurora Americana explores an ominous yet hopeful new morning in America, one in which potential cataclysm exists alongside possibility and change.

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