Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the "Amistad" rebellion. Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship "Amistad, Ardency" begins with "Buzzard," a sequence of poems told in the voice of the interpreter for the captive rebels, who were jailed in New Haven. In "Correspondence," we encounter the remarkable letters to John Quincy Adams and others that the captives wrote from jail. The book culminates in "Witness," a libretto chanted by Cinque,...
Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the...
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. -In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor, - he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (-Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me-), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life's passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in -Crowning, - he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing -her face / full of fire, then groaning your face /...
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. -In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor, - he tells ...
Yes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.
Yes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of sympos...
