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ISBN10: 155597449X
ISBN13: 9781555974497
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: May 30 2006
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781555974497
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: May 30 2006
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins
the victim hanged, though not on a tree, thiswas not the country, they used a steel arch
with electric lights, and later a lamppost, this
was a modern event, the trees were not involved.
--from Blue Front Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking. In Blue Front, Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the mercilessness of the spectators. The poems patch together an arresting array of evidence--newspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collins's speculations
about her father's own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.
about her father's own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.
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