McCrae In the Language of My Captor

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8195-7713-9
Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 108 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm

Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (2017)
Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's three sequences, McCrae explores the role mass entertainment plays in oppression, he confronts the myth that freedom can be based upon the power to dominate others, and, in poems about the mixed-race child adopted by Jefferson Davis in the last year of the Civil War, he interrogates the infrequently examined connections between racism and love. A reader's companion is available at wesleyan.edu/wespress/readerscompanions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCrae, Shane

Inhaltsverzeichnis

His God
Panopticon
Privacy
What Do You Know About Shame
Privacy 2
In the Language
Purgatory: A Memoir / A Son and a Father of Sons
Banjo Yes Receives a Lifetime Achievement Award •Banjo Yes Recalls His First Movies
Banjo Yes Talks About His First White Wife
Banjo Yes Plucks an Apple from a Tree in a Park
Banjo Yes Talks About Motivation
Banjo Yes Asks a Journalist
(hope)(lessness)
Sunlight
Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Visits His Adoptive Parents...
Asked About The Banjo Man and Its Sequels Banjo Yes Tells a Journalist Something...
Still When I Picture It the Face of God Is a White Man's Face
Acknowledgments

Über Autor(innen)

McCrae, Shane
Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor a finalist for the National Book Award, The Animal Too Big to Kill, Mule, Forgiveness Forgiveness and Blood. His work has been featured in The Best American Poetry 2010 edited by Amy Gerstler, The American Poetry Review and Poetry Daily. His honors include winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award, finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a PEN Center USA Literary Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Oberlin, Ohio.

SHANE MCCRAE is the author of four other books of poetry, including The Animal Too Big to Kill, Mule, Forgiveness Forgiveness, and Blood.