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Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
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ISBN10: 0807147346
ISBN13: 9780807147344
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Nov 12 2012
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780807147344
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Nov 12 2012
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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