To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness - Lewis, Robin Coste
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"Twenty-five years ago, after her grandmother's death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a ... collection of photographs under her bed. The poetry that she marries to these vivid daily images of 20th-century Black joy and survival ('I am trying / to make the gods / happy, '; 'I am trying / to make the dead / clap and shout') stands forth as an alternative to the usual way we frame the story of 'race' and 'the great migration'--as she puts it, 'all those other clever ways we've created not to talk about Black culture.' Communing with the engaging photographic vernacular of her particular family, to…mehr

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"Twenty-five years ago, after her grandmother's death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a ... collection of photographs under her bed. The poetry that she marries to these vivid daily images of 20th-century Black joy and survival ('I am trying / to make the gods / happy, '; 'I am trying / to make the dead / clap and shout') stands forth as an alternative to the usual way we frame the story of 'race' and 'the great migration'--as she puts it, 'all those other clever ways we've created not to talk about Black culture.' Communing with the engaging photographic vernacular of her particular family, to be revealed on black pages with white type, Lewis quite literally reverses all expectations"--
Autorenporträt
ROBIN COSTE LEWIS is the author Voyage of the Sable Venus, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The book was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The New York Times, and a best book of the last twenty years by Literary Hub. Lewis is also the coauthor, with Kevin Young, of Robert Rauschenberg: Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno. The former poet laureate of Los Angeles, she holds a PhD in Poetry and Visual Studies from the University of Southern California, an MFA in poetry from New York University, an MTS in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from Harvard's Divinity School, and a BA from Hampshire College. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Transition, and many other journals. Lewis, who has taught at Hampshire College, Hunter College, Wheaton College, and the NYU MFA in Paris, is writer-in-residence at the USC.