| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
123 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Dread 15 -- Delusion 22 -- Fairy Tale 29 -- Relativity 34 -- Family 39 -- The Saga of Charlie Smith 43 -- Disgrace 48 -- Greetings Friend 53 -- Grandfather Says 59 -- The Secret 61 -- Intercourse 66 -- True Love 69 -- Rude Awakening 72 -- Gender/Bender 75 -- Fifty-three 78 -- Passage 81 -- Lullaby 83 -- The Broker 85 -- The Calling 88 -- The White Homegirl 90 -- The Greenwood Cycle 92 -- The Psychic Detective: Identity 101 -- The Psychic Detective: Fantasy 105 -- The Psychic Detective: Divinity 109 -- The Psychic Detective: Destiny 113 -- The Psychic Detective: Infinity 118. |
| Summary |
Called "one of the most singular voices of her generation" by the New York Times Book Review, Ai is America's foremost poet of the dramatic monologue. In this new collection, she adopts the anguished voices of adults remembering traumatic events from their childhoods -- terrorism, war, sexual abuse, parental violence. These searing poems travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet's own bastard birth, as Ai delves deeply into the wounded psyches of her characters in their attempt to reach some kind of reconciliation with what is, ultimately, beyond reconciliation. Dread is a collection of ferocious bravery, conjuring purity as a distant memory and the knowledge of evil as an "infinite dark night." |
| Subject |
African American authors.
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Poetry.
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Poetry -- African American authors.
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African American women authors.
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| ISBN |
0393041433 (hardcover) |
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9780393041439 (hardcover) |
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0393326195 (pbk.) |
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9780393326192 (pbk.) |
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