In the language of my captor / Shane McCrae.
2017
811.6 M132i 2017
Available at 2nd (Main) Floor
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Title
In the language of my captor / Shane McCrae.
Author
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
ISBN
9780819577115 (hardcover)
0819577111 (hardcover)
9780819577139 (ebook)
0819577111 (hardcover)
9780819577139 (ebook)
Published
Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]
Language
English
Description
86 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
811.6 M132i 2017
System Control No.
(OCoLC)957724622
(OCoLC)957724622
(OCoLC)957724622
Summary
"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, 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, interrogates the infrequently examined connections between racism and love."--Jacket.
Formatted Contents Note
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 after the war
Asked about The Banjo Man and its sequels Banjo Yes tells a journalism something about himself
Still when I picture it the face of God is a white man's face.
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 after the war
Asked about The Banjo Man and its sequels Banjo Yes tells a journalism something about himself
Still when I picture it the face of God is a white man's face.
Awards
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry.
Series
Wesleyan poetry.
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