Blood of the air : poems / Ama Codjoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Codjoe, Ama, 1979- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Drinking gourd chapbook poetry prize

The Drinking Gourd Chapbook poetry prize

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 32 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Blood of the Air creates a new mythology: repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The title poem-one of several found poems-calls attention to stories told in the wake of sexual violence. In "She Said," the collection's longest piece, language culled from the transcript of a 17th century rape trial feels eerily familiar. Formally dexterous and refreshingly bold, the poems in Blood of the Air are urgent, moving, and fiercely imagined. Though blood can flow from the site of a wound, Codjoe seems to say, blood is also a sign of life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Burying Seeds

Head on Ice #5

Blood of the Air

She Said

Poem After Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

Found Poem #4

The Beekeeper's Husband

Found Poem #3

Detail from Poem After Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

Nasty Woman

Le sacre du printemps

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9780810141711

081014171X

OCLC:

1109411490

Publisher Number:

99984134073