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Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those revelations of sublimation of self gives way here to a material focus. The racial references are explicit as are the complexities of life lived as a Black man born in America in the mid-twentieth century. These...
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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
" A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead-to be published simultaneously with his latest work of literary criticism, Watch Your Language. The three sections of Terrance Hayes' seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. In "Watch Your Mouth," a tree frog sings to overcome its fear...
Author
Publisher
Alice James Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Praise for Jamaal May: "Linguistically acrobatic [and] beautifully crafted. [Jamaal May's] poems, exquisitely balanced by a sharp intelligence mixed with earnestness, makes his debut a marvel."--Publishers Weekly -- Following May's award-winning debut collection, Hum (2013), these new poems explore parallel landscapes of the poet's interior and an insidious American condition. Using dark humor that helps illuminate the pains of maturity and loss...
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, and Nikki Giovanni, This Is the Honey is a rich and abundant offering of language from the poets giving voice...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company. Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A dynamic, moving hybrid work that celebrates Black youth, often too fleeting, and examines Black lives lost to police violence...Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays-Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of Othello-to mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black children, at the hands of police officers. What do these...
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