Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
ISBN-13:
9780807147337
ISBN-10:
0807147338
Edition:
1
Author:
Marilyn Nelson
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
LSU Press
Format:
Hardcover
176 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780807147337
ISBN-10:
0807147338
Edition:
1
Author:
Marilyn Nelson
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
LSU Press
Format:
Hardcover
176 pages
Summary
Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 (ISBN-13: 9780807147337 and ISBN-10: 0807147338), written by authors
Marilyn Nelson, was published by LSU Press in 2012.
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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 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.
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