Francine J Harris

Here Is the Sweet Hand

Poems

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Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRY The poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular, the speakers in francine j. harris' third collection explore the mystique, and myth, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness, aging, landscape and artistic tradition. The speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns, and in a time of political uncertainty, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. The poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power, or where it may lead. As in her acclaimed previous collections, harris' skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration, subway panic, zoomorphism, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 138mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9780374602901
• ISBN-10: 0374602905
• Artikelnr.: 59999239

Autorenporträt

francine j. harris

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
I.
Versal
Reflections in a Pool of Hair
The Meek
Limulus Polyphemus
Ask me now and I would say
What Milkman Leaps For
Abortion
Against Storm, Against Glib Thunder
She is what I undo
The fat of the fog hovers over
Rabbit
Here is the sweet hand you always turn back on yourself
Language works over information . . .
Junebug
barycente
Single Lines Looking Forward or One Monostich Past 45
Anise Swallowtail, Molting
II.
I won't beg.
Sonata in F Minor, K.183: Allegro
Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 8, RV 315 "L'estate": I. Allegro mà non
molto
Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: IV. Sarabande
Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 no.2: Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
So is we thinking up new ways to fuck, or nah.
White People Eating White Food
I cleaned the house.
Unlike my sister
Stand Up
Tardigrade 00
The Neighbor's Buddy Through the Window
The day after 12 Years a Slave
It is a Choice (because Kanye)
Oregon Trail, Missouri
It Takes
Forestbathing (or Trees)
My hair is falling out.
That scene in Killer of Sheep when
Ablate the Suncups, not the Ice: an Incantation
Curtains
Self-Portrait as Good Samaritan
Notes
Acknowledgments