Lenelle Moïse

Haiti Glass

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With rhythmic poetry and intimate prose, Haiti Glass offers an unflinching look at disaster, desire, and death-defying love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 137mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9780872866140
• ISBN-10: 0872866149
• Artikelnr.: 39401380

Autorenporträt

Lenelle Moïse is an award-winning poet, playwright, essayist and internationally touring performance artist. She creates jazz-infused, hip-hop bred, politicized texts about identity, memory and magic. Her poems and essays are featured in several anthologies, including: Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution and We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists. Her writing has also been published in the Utne Reader, Make/Shift, Left Turn, and numerous other magazines and journals. A current Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow, her plays include Expatriate, Merit and The Many Faces of Nia. She lives in Northampton, MA where she was the 2010-2012 Poet Laureate. Haiti Glass is her long-awaited first book.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
haiti glass
mud mothers
adaptation
the children of immigrants
we live up here
gift a sea
for how loudly
remember noah
where our protest sound
quaking conversation
because john doe is not a haitian name
her remains
no person
life is another word
mayday
for the sore
self portrait as a heel
a pump of bony pelvis/ ode to michael jackson
silence equals death
madivinez
malden, massachusetts
seeing skinhead
elephant mourning
letter to my father (in english)
pray
desire
anahata
acknowledgments
biography