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Indlæser... The Field of Praise: New and Selected Poemsaf Marilyn Nelson
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"In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love, and the African American experience and arranges them as white pebbles marking our common journey toward a "monstrous love / that wants to make the world right."" "Nelson is a poet of stunning power, able to bring alive the most rarified and subtle of experiences. A slave destined to become a minister preaches sermons of heartrending eloquence and wisdom to a mule. An old woman scrubbing over a washtub receives a personal revelation of what Emancipation means: "So this is freedom: the peace of hours like these." Memories of the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen in the face of aerial combat abroad and virulent racism at home bring a speaker to the sudden awareness of herself as the daughter "of a thousand proud fathers.""--Jacket. No library descriptions found. |
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Aunt Geneva is a brilliant poem, funny and earthy and sad all at once, and not at all representative of her work in general. Which is not a criticism. These were stupendous, amazing poems. She writes about motherhood and relationships brilliantly, but my favourite poems were the large numbers concerned with the evils that people do (particularly violent anti-black racism in America) and the difficulty of maintaining hope and practicing love in the face of that.
Well worth reading for anyone who feels despair about our current cultural moment. ( )