Call Number: PS3626 .A67 A6 2019, Main Book Collection (2nd Floor)
ISBN: 9781556595783
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
"Poetically confident and personally uneasy, these clear, musical poems bring forth the events and inner questions that shape the life of a new father, a husband, a citizen attempting to think clearly as a nation convulses and changes. The title refers not just to our nuclear families, but to our problematic, limited, founding fathers. Heroes and would-be villains are named and unnamed—called into conversation—as old norms are questioned. Public enemies are condemned then kissed on their dry, hateful lips. In the lucid dream life of these poems, the personal and political intertwine, and illuminate each other. Self-deprecating yet with characteristic directness, Father's Day calls out to the privileged collective, urging us to remember that 'the children sleeping / alone in some / detention center / don’t need / our brilliant sincerity.' The poems urge us to leave behind our self-delusions, in the hopes of actual, meaningful change. In 'Late Humanism,' a prose afterword, Zapruder continues his exploration of the purpose of poetry, and reveals relevant biographical information about his experiences as a parent and political being in the twenty-first century" --Provided by publisher.
Call Number: PS591.N4 A37 2020, Main Book Collection (2nd Floor)
ISBN: 9781598536669
Publication Date: 2020-10-20
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate resistance to slavery. This volume captures the power and beauty of this diverse tradition and its challenge to American poetry and culture. Here are all the significant movements and currents: the nineteenth-century Francophone poets known as Les Cenelles, the Chicago Renaissance that flourished around Gwendolyn Brooks, the early 1960s Umbra group, and the more recent work of writers affiliated with Cave Canem and the Dark Noise Collective. Here too are poems of singular, hard-to-classify figures: the enslaved potter David Drake, the allusive modernist Melvin B. Tolson, the Cleveland-based experimentalist Russell Atkins. The volume also features biographies of each poet and notes that illuminate cultural references and allusions to historical events-- adapted from dust jacket. Selected poems to consider enjoying The Bones of My Father, Washing the car with My Father, My Father's Love Letters, Poem for My Father, Goldsboro Narrative #4: My father's Viet Nam tour near over, and My Father's Kites.
Call Number: PR6113.A87 Z46 2016, Main Book Collection (2nd Floor)
ISBN: 9780812994827
Publication Date: 2016-07-05
"In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime's most notorious prison. Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballah Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is "persistent and cunning." This book is a profoundly moving family memoir, a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of the monstrous nature of absolute power"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: PS3553.A88557 M9 1988, Main Book Collection (2nd Floor)
ISBN: 9781400034994
Publication Date: 1998
Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country’s most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment and passion. My Father Was a Toltec is the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and secured Castillo's place in the popular canon. It is included here in its entirety along with the best of her early poems. Ana Castillo’s poetry speaks—in English and Spanish—to every reader who has felt the pangs of exile, the uninterrupted joy of love, and the deep despair of love lost.
Call Number: PS3554 .E73 A6 2019, Main Book Collection (2nd Floor)
ISBN: 9780822945666
Publication Date: 2019-03-26
"The story of Toi Derricotte is a hero's odyssey. It is the journey of a poetic voice that in each book earns her way to home, to her own commanding powers. "I": New and Selected Poems shows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet's inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy. It is a record of one woman's response to the repressive and fracturing forces around the subjects of race, class, color, gender, and sexuality. Each poet is an act of victory as they find their way through the repressive forces to speak with both beauty and truth. This collection features more than thirty new poems as well as selections from five of Derricotte's previously published books of poetry" -- From dust jacket. Selected poems: My father in old age, My father still sleeping after surgery, When my father was beating me, I see my father after his death, My dad & sardines
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