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T'Ai Freedom Ford how to get over (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- How to Get over
- Publication Name
- how to get over
- Title
- how to get over
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781597090384
- ISBN
- 9781597090384
- Publisher
- Red Hen Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 22/06/2017
- Release Year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 228mm
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 136g
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Topic
- Women Authors, American / African American, General, Lgbt
- Number of Pages
- 110 Pages
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An astonishing debut, how to get over is part instruction manual, part prayer, part testimony. It attempts to solve the reader's problems (by telling them how to get over), while simultaneously creating them--troubling the waters with witness and blues. ford's poems witness via a series of "past life portraits" that navigate personal space as well as the imagined persona. These portraits conjure the blues via the imagined lives of the inanimate (a whip, a machete), the historic (a Negro burial ground, Harriet Tubman, The Red Summer), the iconic (Pecola Breedlove, Richard Pryor, Rodney King). At the same time, these portraits focus on the past lives of the author and grapple with themes including sexuality, sexual abuse, and substance abuse. The collection's namesake poems speak to bullying and homophobia, blackness, whiteness and gentrification, and even directly address pop culture icons like Kanye West, Chaka Khan, and Nicky Minaj. Grounded in memory and re-memory, these poems pray in the voice of the ancestors and testify on their behalf. ford's poems not only remind how the history and legacy of slavery placed African-Americans at an unfair disadvantage, but attempt to illuminate the beautiful struggle of a people's endurance and resilience. The reader embarks upon a journey through these poems, circa 1787 to 2013, and emerges realizing that everything is connected--the ways we live, lie, love, and die--the ways we all get over.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Red Hen Press
ISBN-10
1597090387
ISBN-13
9781597090384
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235660397
Product Key Features
Book Title
How to Get over
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, American / African American, General, Lgbt
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
110 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3606.O74723a6 2017
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"From the moment the poet declares that there's a 'plantation in them lungs,' and sets the stage for a starkly 'muscled music,' you may as well let loose your rigid misconceptions about what poetry can do and steel yourself as it becomes the way your body moves from one exclamation to the other. Each of these lean and urgent poems, bulging with insistent energy and image, is a hallmark of t'ai freedom's fierce inventiveness and refusal to settle for anything that lives its only life on the page. The fact that you aren't ready for this work is exactly why you need it in your life." --Patricia Smith "t'ai freedom ford has written a Live/Lie/Love/Die survival guide for survivors of drug wars and hip hop fantasies; a gender-blurred bildungsroman built with the bone of poetry; a battalion of rhyme brilliantly etched across loss and discovery; a celebration of brown-skinned love and a boomboxed declaration of living filled with all the grit and spit it takes to make love last. This book has come just in time for all us who've been under the gun, under false pretense, under arrest, under the influence, and burying our hearts underground. Here we have a Harriet Tubman of a tome with a mission to deliver us from ourselves and unto ourselves, to teach us simply and profoundly how to get over ." --Tyehimba Jess, "From the moment the poet declares that there's a 'plantation in them lungs,' and sets the stage for a starkly 'muscled music,' you may as well let loose your rigid misconceptions about what poetry can do and steel yourself as it becomes the way your body moves from one exclamation to the other. Each of these lean and urgent poems, bulging with insistent energy and image, is a hallmark of t'ai freedom's fierce inventiveness and refusal to settle for anything that lives its only life on the page. The fact that you aren't ready for this work is exactly why you need it in your life." --Patricia Smith, author of Blood Dazzler , finalist for the National Book Award "t'ai freedom ford has written a Live/Lie/Love/Die survival guide for survivors of drug wars and hip hop fantasies; a gender-blurred bildungsroman built with the bone of poetry; a battalion of rhyme brilliantly etched across loss and discovery; a celebration of brown-skinned love and a boomboxed declaration of living filled with all the grit and spit it takes to make love last. This book has come just in time for all us who've been under the gun, under false pretense, under arrest, under the influence, and burying our hearts underground. Here we have a Harriet Tubman of a tome with a mission to deliver us from ourselves and unto ourselves, to teach us simply and profoundly how to get over ." --Tyehimba Jess, author of leadbelly
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2016-048438
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Dewey Edition
23
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