In 55 poems, Migration Letters straddles the personal and public with particular, photorealistic detail to identify what, over time, creating a home creates in ourselves. Drawn from her experiences of being born in Philadelphia into a Black family and a Black culture transported from the American South by the Great Migration, M. Nzadi Keita's poetry sparks a profoundly hybrid gaze of the visual and the sensory.
In 55 poems, Migration Letters straddles the personal and public with particular, photorealistic detail to identify what, over time, creating a home creates in ourselves. Drawn from her experiences of being born in Philadelphia into a Black family and a Black culture transported from the American South by the Great Migration, M. Nzadi Keita's poetry sparks a profoundly hybrid gaze of the visual and the sensory.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
M. Nzadi Keita is a poet, essayist, scholar and teacher. Her most recent poetry collection, Brief Evidence of Heaven—a finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Prize—sheds light on Anna Murray Douglass, Frederick Douglass’s first wife, and is cited by David Blight in his prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Keita’s work has appeared in A Face to Meet the Faces: A Persona Poetry Anthology and journals including Killens Review of Arts and Letters and Poet Lore. A Cave Canem alumna, she taught creative writing, American literature, and Africana studies at Ursinus College. She was an adviser to the award-winning documentary, BadddDDD Sonia Sanchez, and has consulted with the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Foundation and Mural Arts Philadelphia. Keita has presented poetry and scholarship at national and international conferences. Her prose will appear in the forthcoming When We Exhale: Reflections on Rest, Grief, & Intimacy from Black Freighter Press. Connect with her on IG: @nzadikeita
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THE IDEA OF ANCESTRY 102. [Far] 50. [Migration Letter] 153. [Fathers] 27. [night shift/day shift] 45. [Libations for the One Hundred Years of Gwendolyn Brooks] to your heart to your journey 173. [Migration Letter] 69. [Mentor as a young woman: tanka for Sonia Sanchez] 54. [A House Full] 195. [Migration Letter] 7. [Our Day Will Come] Seasons Christening Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier said what you couldn’t say. AN AGONY. AS NOW. 129. [Letters To Eleanor] 34. [1963] 70. [white lie] 205. [Not Your Philadelphia: August, 1964] 107. [Ebony Magazine] War To the photographers Diaspora 156. [Toni Morrison Knows] 74. [16th and Erie] 105. [by 1989] 9. [Letter to the Soul Singers: Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, Koko Taylor, Ruth Brown, Brook Benton, Nina Simone, B.B. King, Otis Redding & James The-Godfather-of-Soul Brown] THAT WE HEAD TOWARD 111. [Letters to Black Bodies] Integrated Morning Integrated Afternoon Blue Plastic Clothesline “Fence Walk” 25. [Presentable] 11. [The Hansberry Suite] Afterword to Ruth Afterword to Walter Lee Afterword to Travis Beneatha Writes to Herself 57. [Holes] 85. [Eunice on 194th] 6. [Norristown] 13. [Korvette’s, 1967] 16. [Kimiko, 1961] 109. [Great Migration Pentimento] Perry County Mike Jo Stetson East siddity 86. [Eunice by heart] 99. [House Wedding] HOMECOMING 29. [Green Shades Outside the Tropicoro Bar] 38. [Migration Letter] 213. [Letter to Melvin Butler, 1965] 233. [Letters to Mt. Airy, West Side] 240. [Jones Beauty Shop] 189. [American ode] 23. [multiplied] 87. [Eunice in flight] 117. [East Chelten Avenue] 300. [Easter] 18. [6966 Weatham Street, 1968] 184. [Letters to the First-Gen North] DANCING ON THE SHORE 329. [No way the whole world is white.] 66. [Holiday magazine on the sofa] 67. [“What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)?”] 311. [Just American kids] 345. [Letter to Nina Simone] 344. [Cannabis] 321. [Hendrix, Once] 19. [Set for Chaka Khan] Yvette Chime 273. [WDAS-FM, 1977] 215. [Penn Relays] 212. [Set for Pharoah Sanders] Bus Ride Chant 174. [Ode to Sandalwood] 223. [assimilation] 302. [American Innocents] 312. [Laughing with Don Belton] 78. [Steel Pulse sings me a dream-letter] 304. [You Didn’t Pay for That] 122. [Migration Letter] Notes Acknowledgments Gratitude
THE IDEA OF ANCESTRY 102. [Far] 50. [Migration Letter] 153. [Fathers] 27. [night shift/day shift] 45. [Libations for the One Hundred Years of Gwendolyn Brooks] to your heart to your journey 173. [Migration Letter] 69. [Mentor as a young woman: tanka for Sonia Sanchez] 54. [A House Full] 195. [Migration Letter] 7. [Our Day Will Come] Seasons Christening Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier said what you couldn’t say. AN AGONY. AS NOW. 129. [Letters To Eleanor] 34. [1963] 70. [white lie] 205. [Not Your Philadelphia: August, 1964] 107. [Ebony Magazine] War To the photographers Diaspora 156. [Toni Morrison Knows] 74. [16th and Erie] 105. [by 1989] 9. [Letter to the Soul Singers: Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, Koko Taylor, Ruth Brown, Brook Benton, Nina Simone, B.B. King, Otis Redding & James The-Godfather-of-Soul Brown] THAT WE HEAD TOWARD 111. [Letters to Black Bodies] Integrated Morning Integrated Afternoon Blue Plastic Clothesline “Fence Walk” 25. [Presentable] 11. [The Hansberry Suite] Afterword to Ruth Afterword to Walter Lee Afterword to Travis Beneatha Writes to Herself 57. [Holes] 85. [Eunice on 194th] 6. [Norristown] 13. [Korvette’s, 1967] 16. [Kimiko, 1961] 109. [Great Migration Pentimento] Perry County Mike Jo Stetson East siddity 86. [Eunice by heart] 99. [House Wedding] HOMECOMING 29. [Green Shades Outside the Tropicoro Bar] 38. [Migration Letter] 213. [Letter to Melvin Butler, 1965] 233. [Letters to Mt. Airy, West Side] 240. [Jones Beauty Shop] 189. [American ode] 23. [multiplied] 87. [Eunice in flight] 117. [East Chelten Avenue] 300. [Easter] 18. [6966 Weatham Street, 1968] 184. [Letters to the First-Gen North] DANCING ON THE SHORE 329. [No way the whole world is white.] 66. [Holiday magazine on the sofa] 67. [“What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)?”] 311. [Just American kids] 345. [Letter to Nina Simone] 344. [Cannabis] 321. [Hendrix, Once] 19. [Set for Chaka Khan] Yvette Chime 273. [WDAS-FM, 1977] 215. [Penn Relays] 212. [Set for Pharoah Sanders] Bus Ride Chant 174. [Ode to Sandalwood] 223. [assimilation] 302. [American Innocents] 312. [Laughing with Don Belton] 78. [Steel Pulse sings me a dream-letter] 304. [You Didn’t Pay for That] 122. [Migration Letter] Notes Acknowledgments Gratitude
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