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Unshuttered: Poems
Hardcover
General PhotographyGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $28.00
ISBN13: 9780810145634
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Published: Feb 15 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
National Book Award winner Patricia Smith presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century
Over the course of two decades, Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time.Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Smith's searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives:
We ache for fiction etched in black and white. Our eyes never touch. These tragic grays and bustles, mourners'
hats plopped high upon our tamed but tangled crowns, strain to disguise what yearning does with us.
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