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It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time: Poems
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Series: Triquarterly
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ISBN10: 0810130513
ISBN13: 9780810130517
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Published: Feb 15 2015
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.96 Depth: 8.33
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780810130517
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Published: Feb 15 2015
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.96 Depth: 8.33
Language: English
2015 PEN Open Book Award Finalist
Angela Jackson's latest collection of poetry borrows its title from a lyric in Barbara Lewis's 1963 hit single Hello Stranger, recorded at Chess Records in Chicago. Like the song, Jackson's poems are a melodic ode to the African American experience, informed by both individual lives and community history, from the arrival of the first African slave in Virginia in 1619 to post-Obama America.It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time reflects the maturity of Jackson's poetic vision. The Great Migration, the American South, and Chicago all serve as signposts, but it is the complexity of individual lives--both her own and those who have gone before, walk beside, and come after--that invigorate this collection. Upon surveying so vast a landscape, Jackson finds that sorrow meets delight, and joy lifts up anger and despair. And for all this time, love is the agent, the wise and just rule and guide.
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