Marilyn Nelson

Fields of Praise

New and Selected Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love, and the African American experience and arranges them as white pebbles marking our common journey toward a "monstrous love / that wants to make the world right." Nelson is a poet of stunning power, able to bring alive the most rarified and subtle of experiences. A slave destined to become a minister preaches sermons of heartrending eloquence and wisdom to a mule. An old woman scrubbing over a washtub receives a personal revelation of what Emancipation means: "So this is freedom: the peace of hours like these." Memories of the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen in the face of aerial combat abroad and virulent racism at home bring a speaker to the sudden awareness of herself as the daughter "of a thousand proud fathers."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780807121757
• ISBN-10: 0807121754
• Artikelnr.: 22354617

Autorenporträt

Marilyn Nelson's other poetry titles include Magnificat, Mama's Promises, and The Homeplace--a finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of the Annisfield-Wolf Award, she is professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut at Storrs and a member of the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets.