Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 Marilyn Nelson

Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011

Author: Marilyn Nelson
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Book Title
Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
Author
Marilyn Nelson
ISBN
9780807147344
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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Marilyn NelsonPublisher: LSU PressPublished: 02/01/2013ISBN: 9780807147344Pages: 176Weight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Marilyn Nelson
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 02/01/2013
ISBN: 9780807147344
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Marilyn Nelson
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 02/01/2013
ISBN: 9780807147344
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d