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

Name: Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
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ISBN: 9780807147344

ISBN-10: 0807147346

ISBN-13: 9780807147344

Edition: 2012

Authors: Marilyn Nelson

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English




Lyric Histories


A Wreath for Emmett Till


From The Freedom Business


Witness


Pestilence


A Voyage by Sea


Keeper of the Keys


Fat on the Fire


Meg


Cows in the Shade


Sap Rising


Farm Garden


The Freedom Business


From Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem


On Abrigador Hill


Dinah's Lament


Not My Bones


From Seneca Village


Sky-Land


Conductor


The Cotillion


Address


Thompson and Seaman Vows, African Union Church


Words and Whispers


Little Box


Miracle in the Collection Plate


Sisters of Charity


Uncle Epiphany


From Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color


The Book


Family


The Tao of the Trial


Miss Ann Eliza Hammond


Etymology


Albert Hinkley


Worth


From Carver: A Life in Poems


Watkins Laundry and Apothecary


Old Settlers' Reunion


Four a.m. in the Woods


Cafeteria Food


Called


My People


Chemistry 101


From an Alabama Farmer


Bedside Reading


Poultry Husbandry


1905


Veil-Raisers


How a Dream Dies


The Dimensions of the Milky Way


Ruellia Noctiflora


Goliath


House Ways and Means


"God's Little Workshop"


Eureka


Mineralogy


Last Talk with Jim Hardwick


Moton Field


From Sweethearts of Rhythm


Bugle Call Rag


Chattanooga Choo-Choo


Jump, Jump, Jump


She's Crazy with the Heat


Red-Hot Mama


That Man of Mine


Improvisation, 1948


Drum Solo, 1950


The Song Is You



Other Selected Poems


From The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems


Faster Than Light


Cachoeira Tales


General Prologue


C.I.A.


Harmonia and Moreen


Baixa Mall


Olodum


A Igreja do Nossa Senhor do Bonfim


Triolets for Triolet



New and Uncollected Poems


Millie-Christine


A Small Good News


Little Dialogue with the Muse


First Alzheimer's Sonnet


Second Alzheimer's Sonnet


The Truceless Wars


Live Jazz, Franklin Park Zoo


To the Confederate Dead


Bivouac in a Storm


Six-Minute Dogfight


Written in Clouds


Honor Guard


Eternal Optimist


Psalm for Another People


Nine Times Nine, on Awe


In the Waiting Room


The Mohembo Road


For the Feast of Corpus Christi


How to Be Human Now


The Contemplative Life


The Language of the Absolute


Stone Adze


The Risk Unto Death


Truth and Beauty


La Gare Central


Where Humanity Begins


Nothing Stranger


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