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The garden : a poem and an essay / A.F. Moritz.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.O87168 A6 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moritz, A. F. (Albert Frank), author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992--Literary collections.
- Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992.
- African Americans--Social conditions--Literary collections.
- African Americans.
- Racism--Literary collections.
- Racism.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- North America--Race relations--Literary collections.
- North America.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Poetry.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 116 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Guelph, Ontario : Gordon Hill Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- ""The Garden" by A. F. Moritz is a passionate denunciation of injustice, especially as seen in the violent injustice directed to the African diaspora in North America, both from many individual members of the general citizenry, and through the legislative, police, and judicial institutions that express the citizenry. The book is epic, lyrical, and analytical. It is uniquely comprised of a long poem, "The Garden in the Midst", and an in-depth essay, "The Poet's Garden". Each centers on the South Central Los Angeles "riot" of 1992 in response to the not guilty verdict on police officers video-ed badly beating Rodney King in 1991. From this central point, the poem and essay reach out to embrace the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd, and the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, and the long history of legalized criminal repression these two deaths belong to."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: POEM: The Garden in the Midst
- Three Kings: 1992, 1968, 2020
- The Garden in the Midst
- The Marigold
- Victory of the Flower
- Human Flower
- Los Angeles, 29 April
- 5 May 1992
- Human Poem
- Human Soil
- Human Desert
- Human Garden
- Coda: The Zombies
- Coda: The Blues
- ESSAY: The Poet's Garden
- Garden and People
- Poet and Street
- Analysis-the Poverty of Power
- Death-in-Life
- From Rigidity to Reason
- The Dearest Freshness Deep Down
- Liberty or Death
- Coda in 1993.
- Contains:
- container of: Moritz, A. F. (Albert Frank). Garden in the midst.
- container of: Moritz, A. F. (Albert Frank). Poet's garden.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Moritz, A. F. (Albert Frank) Works. Selections. Garden.
- ISBN:
- 9781774220382
- 1774220385
- OCLC:
- 1201258982
- Publisher Number:
- 99988118950
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