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What noise against the cane / Desiree C. Bailey ; foreword by Carl Phillips.
LIBRA PS3602.A5413 W43 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, Desiree C., author.
- Series:
- Yale series of younger poets ; v. 115.
- Yale series of younger poets ; volume 115
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bailey, Desiree C--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bailey, Desiree C.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 78 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- What Noise Against the Cane' is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey's "poems argue for hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance."
- ISBN:
- 9780300256536
- 0300256531
- 9780300256543
- 030025654X
- OCLC:
- 1184236497
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