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Okot PBitek, writing in Africas Cultural Revolution, Macmillian Books for Africa, Nairobi, 1973, reminds us that writing, like painting and sculpting, is a mere tool for expressing ideas. As the painter uses brush, color, and a surface (. . . canvas, the walls of St. Peters Basilica . . . the walls of a cave), and the sculptor uses a chisel and a piece of wood or stone to produce shapes and figures, the poet uses words for expressing his feelings. The voice of the [writer] and the pen and paper are mere midwives of a pregnant mind.
Lectures that meander, accumulate, and adjust in an echolocating search for the in-between places where poetry lives.
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry " Trethewey's poems] dig beneath the surface of history--personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago--to explore the human struggles that we all face." --James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress Layering joy and urgent defiance--against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone--Trethewey's work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, Trethewey's first retrospective, draws together verse that delineates the stories of working class African American women, a mixed-race prostitute, one of the first black Civil War regiments, mestizo and mulatto figures in Casta paintings, Gulf coast victims of Katrina. Through the collection, inlaid and inextricable, winds the poet's own family history of trauma and loss, resilience and love. In this setting, each section, each poem drawn from an "opus of classics both elegant and necessary,"* weaves and interlocks with those that come before and those that follow. As a whole, Monument casts new light on the trauma of our national wounds, our shared history. This is a poet's remarkable labor to source evidence, persistence, and strength from the past in order to change the very foundation of the vocabulary we use to speak about race, gender, and our collective future. *Academy of American Poets' chancellor Marilyn Nelson
Edited this year by acclaimed poet and writer Doty, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns. It is an essential guide to contemporary American verse and the poets who define it.
'Flint and Feather: Collected Verse' by E. Pauline Johnson is an exquisite collection of poetry that showcases the heart and soul of Canada's greatest poet. Johnson's work, born from her experiences of the ancient legends of the Iroquois and the great works of English literature, travels around Canada, and natural scenery, has a timeless quality that still resonates today. Her vivid descriptions of Canadian lakes, rivers, mountains, trees, and fauna capture the Canadian soul's gentle loneliness and exotic fascination with faraway places. With themes of nationalism, nature, and survival, Johnson's poetry is a must-read for anyone looking to immerse themselves in Canadian literature. Here's an excerpt from one of the many poems included in this collection, 'The Cattle Thief': "They were coming across the prairie, they were galloping hard and fast / For the eyes of those desperate riders had sighted their man at last— / Sighted him off to Eastward, where the Cree encampment lay / Where the cottonwoods fringed the river, miles and miles away."
Generous retrospective of passionate, straight-talking poems that have been delighting readers for over forty years.