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Faster Than Light : New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 /
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 histo...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COVER; CONTENTS; I. 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 ColorThe 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 RhythmBugle 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; II. 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; III. 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 ZooTo 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; From "Adventure-Monk!"