Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer

di Quincy Troupe (Autore)

Northwestern University Press, 2018

If we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what would they say? Award-winning poet Quincy Troupe, spokesman for the humanizing forces of poetry, music, and art, parts the Atlantic and rattles the ground built on slavery with Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer. we are crossing, / we are / crossing, / we are crossing in big salt water, // we are crossing, // crossing under a sky of no guilt / we have left home // though we know we will go back / someday, / see our people / as we knew them . . . Troupe re-creates the history of lost voices between the waters of Africa, Cuba, and the United States. His daring poetics drenched in new forms-notably the seven-elevens-clench transformative narratives spurred on by a relentless, rhythmic language that mimics the foaming waves of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. His personae speak quantum litanies within one epic, sermonic-gospel to articulate our most ancient ways of storytelling and survival.

• Autore: Quincy Troupe
• Editore: Northwestern University Press
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 64 p.
• Dimensioni: 178 x 114 mm
• Peso: 92 gr.
• EAN: 9780810138995

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