"Chaun Ballard's gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban. Riddled with the ghostly voices of family and friends, Second Nature is fearless in its wrestling with America's fractured past and troubled present. In these poems, W.E.B. DuBois and Fredrick Douglass have a conversation, Michael Brown meditates on the nature of the cosmos, Johnnie Taylor's guitar sings in sonnets, and the road Walt Whitman set out upon comes alive for a new…mehr
"Chaun Ballard's gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban. Riddled with the ghostly voices of family and friends, Second Nature is fearless in its wrestling with America's fractured past and troubled present. In these poems, W.E.B. DuBois and Fredrick Douglass have a conversation, Michael Brown meditates on the nature of the cosmos, Johnnie Taylor's guitar sings in sonnets, and the road Walt Whitman set out upon comes alive for a new generation. Through innovative re-imaginings of the sonnet, the pastoral, and the contrapuntal, Ballard engages with popular culture while examining the intricacies of all that is wedded together-form and content, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, husband and wife, and a nation long dependent on created binaries that serve to maintain structures of oppression. Interspersed with quotations and inspired by the rich legacy of poets who came before him-including poet Matthew Shenoda who provides an insightful Foreword to the collection-Second Nature is a testament to interconnectedness, a love letter to the deep roots that we come from, and a reminder of the myriad ways in which one's identity is shaped by community and country"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Chaun Ballard is a doctoral student of poetry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of the chapbook Flight (Tupelo Press), which received the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. Ballard's poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Narrative Magazine, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Missouri Review, The New York Times, and other literary magazines. Ballard lives in Lincoln, NE.
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I. A Poem Ending with a Strambotto wherein I Include an Extra Line That Is Myself or A Poem in which I Name the Flower Landscape The Ghost of Johnnie Taylor Encourages the Lone Offspring of a Robin to Jump and Reminds Himself That the First Love to Break His Heart Wasn’t a Woman at All Today Possible Titles for a Love Poem You Tellin’ Me if My Grandmomma Was in the NBA Right Now She Would Be Okay? Turnkey Sonnet #14: Trope of the Perfect Entertainer Getting His Flowers or My Attempt to Record Black Geographies into Song One Side of an Interview with the Ghost of Johnnie Taylor Given by the Queen of a Humblebee Hive above His Grave My Father Falls in Love for a Third Time and My Bill Is Five Hundred Dollas Emmitt Smith Is Looking for a Wife so My Mother Writes Him a Letter Yes, We Wept at the Green Light and Held Up Traffic or What Is Love? Baby, Don’t Hurt Me The Ghost of My Grandmother Looks Out over a Baseball Diamond and Tells Her Daughter about a Man Coming Home Yes, I Beat Jason’s High-Yellah Ass for Making Fun of My Pronunciation and Emancipation Was Really Not That Long Ago My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother’s Funeral and the Wildflowers II. Second Nature Blues Sonnet on What I Don’t Have to Tell You in the Absence of Porches The Ghost of Johnnie Taylor, the Philosopher of Soul, Tells the City How He and Sam Cooke Left the Country, but the Country Never Left Them Surely, I Am Able to Write Poems Celebrating Grass and How the Blue in the Sky Can Flow Green or Red— Poems about Nature and Landscape but Whenever I Begin the Trees Wave Their Knotted Branches Epithalamium or I Attempt to Write the Poem That Whitman Did Not Write or Our Knees Bent in the Photo Just before We Jump the Broom The Ghost of Johnnie Taylor Reflects on “Who’s Making Love” and Believes Every Spring to Be a Metaphor for the Muse I Will Not Escape without Leaving a Trail of Stars; Therefore, I Will Tell You How Spectacular You Are Under All This Light or I Want to Write a Song for You That I Will Not Complete Which Ends in Its Own Refrain or A Poem on How I Want Turnkey Sonnet #9: Trope of the Sexual Superman and How He Got His Rep or The Ghosts of Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois Collaborate to Write in Defense of Juxtaposition [John] Adams’ Argument for the Defense: 3 – 4 December 1770 The Ghost of Crispus Attucks Stands Outside the Old State House and Speaks for Himself Using the Laws of Motion to Explain Ferguson Working Title Squire—The Outlaw! July 19, 1837 The Legend of Bras-Coupé Speaks on the Creation of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus My Black Ash in the Sun Is Not a Phoenix Self-Portrait as Yes and Amen And Someone Said, Those Poems Are Valid and Important and Good, but It’s Hard to Constantly Be Fighting for an Inch; for That to Be One’s Sole Mode of Artistic Expression After Shut Up and Dribble, a Three-Man Weave A One-Sided Conversation with Whitman Using His Words or A Sonnet Written on the Topic of Silence III. Anti-Pastoral If You Were to Ask Me the State of My Country, I Would Say Surely, I Am Able to Write Poems Celebrating Grass and How the Blue in the Sky Can Flow Green or Red— Poems about Nature and Landscape but Whenever I Begin the Trees Wave Their Knotted Branches Ars Poetica or American Pastoral as Opening Scene for a Micro-Documentary after Flipping the Script and Keeping the Darkness for Ourselves And Someone Said, Those Poems Are Valid and Important and Good, but It’s Hard to Constantly Be Fighting for an Inch; for That to Be One’s Sole Mode of Artistic Expression Poem of Remorse Ending in Reparations The Ghost of Johnnie Taylor Kicks Game to a Paper Birch about the Economics of a Recording Contract Signed on What Is Otherwise a Piece of Wood Ars Poetica or Self-Portrait Beginning with a Haiku before Shaking the Polaroid into Image and Keeping the Darkness for Ourselves If I’m Talkin’ Nature Epithalamium or I Attempt to Write the Poem That Whitman Did Not Write or Our Knees Bent in the Photo Just Before We Jump the Broom Michael Brown as My Father or Michael Brown as My Grandfather or Michael Brown as My Father and My Grandfather or All Three as an Old Man Interview with a Field Guitar’s Twelve Strings Speaking on Themselves and When Johnnie Made It the key: Johnnie Taylor’s Ghost Writer Speaks Q & A Notes Acknowledgments About the Author
I. A Poem Ending with a Strambotto wherein I Include an Extra Line That Is Myself or A Poem in which I Name the Flower Landscape The Ghost of Johnnie Taylor Encourages the Lone Offspring of a Robin to Jump and Reminds Himself That the First Love to Break His Heart Wasn’t a Woman at All Today Possible Titles for a Love Poem You Tellin’ Me if My Grandmomma Was in the NBA Right Now She Would Be Okay? Turnkey Sonnet #14: Trope of the Perfect Entertainer Getting His Flowers or My Attempt to Record Black Geographies into Song One Side of an Interview with the Ghost of Johnnie Taylor Given by the Queen of a Humblebee Hive above His Grave My Father Falls in Love for a Third Time and My Bill Is Five Hundred Dollas Emmitt Smith Is Looking for a Wife so My Mother Writes Him a Letter Yes, We Wept at the Green Light and Held Up Traffic or What Is Love? Baby, Don’t Hurt Me The Ghost of My Grandmother Looks Out over a Baseball Diamond and Tells Her Daughter about a Man Coming Home Yes, I Beat Jason’s High-Yellah Ass for Making Fun of My Pronunciation and Emancipation Was Really Not That Long Ago My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother’s Funeral and the Wildflowers II. Second Nature Blues Sonnet on What I Don’t Have to Tell You in the Absence of Porches The Ghost of Johnnie Taylor, the Philosopher of Soul, Tells the City How He and Sam Cooke Left the Country, but the Country Never Left Them Surely, I Am Able to Write Poems Celebrating Grass and How the Blue in the Sky Can Flow Green or Red— Poems about Nature and Landscape but Whenever I Begin the Trees Wave Their Knotted Branches Epithalamium or I Attempt to Write the Poem That Whitman Did Not Write or Our Knees Bent in the Photo Just before We Jump the Broom The Ghost of Johnnie Taylor Reflects on “Who’s Making Love” and Believes Every Spring to Be a Metaphor for the Muse I Will Not Escape without Leaving a Trail of Stars; Therefore, I Will Tell You How Spectacular You Are Under All This Light or I Want to Write a Song for You That I Will Not Complete Which Ends in Its Own Refrain or A Poem on How I Want Turnkey Sonnet #9: Trope of the Sexual Superman and How He Got His Rep or The Ghosts of Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois Collaborate to Write in Defense of Juxtaposition [John] Adams’ Argument for the Defense: 3 – 4 December 1770 The Ghost of Crispus Attucks Stands Outside the Old State House and Speaks for Himself Using the Laws of Motion to Explain Ferguson Working Title Squire—The Outlaw! July 19, 1837 The Legend of Bras-Coupé Speaks on the Creation of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus My Black Ash in the Sun Is Not a Phoenix Self-Portrait as Yes and Amen And Someone Said, Those Poems Are Valid and Important and Good, but It’s Hard to Constantly Be Fighting for an Inch; for That to Be One’s Sole Mode of Artistic Expression After Shut Up and Dribble, a Three-Man Weave A One-Sided Conversation with Whitman Using His Words or A Sonnet Written on the Topic of Silence III. Anti-Pastoral If You Were to Ask Me the State of My Country, I Would Say Surely, I Am Able to Write Poems Celebrating Grass and How the Blue in the Sky Can Flow Green or Red— Poems about Nature and Landscape but Whenever I Begin the Trees Wave Their Knotted Branches Ars Poetica or American Pastoral as Opening Scene for a Micro-Documentary after Flipping the Script and Keeping the Darkness for Ourselves And Someone Said, Those Poems Are Valid and Important and Good, but It’s Hard to Constantly Be Fighting for an Inch; for That to Be One’s Sole Mode of Artistic Expression Poem of Remorse Ending in Reparations The Ghost of Johnnie Taylor Kicks Game to a Paper Birch about the Economics of a Recording Contract Signed on What Is Otherwise a Piece of Wood Ars Poetica or Self-Portrait Beginning with a Haiku before Shaking the Polaroid into Image and Keeping the Darkness for Ourselves If I’m Talkin’ Nature Epithalamium or I Attempt to Write the Poem That Whitman Did Not Write or Our Knees Bent in the Photo Just Before We Jump the Broom Michael Brown as My Father or Michael Brown as My Grandfather or Michael Brown as My Father and My Grandfather or All Three as an Old Man Interview with a Field Guitar’s Twelve Strings Speaking on Themselves and When Johnnie Made It the key: Johnnie Taylor’s Ghost Writer Speaks Q & A Notes Acknowledgments About the Author
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