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Let the poets govern : a declaration of freedom / Camonghne Felix.
Van Pelt Library PS3606.E3879 Z46 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Felix, Camonghne, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Felix, Camonghne.
- African American poets--Biography.
- African American poets.
- Speechwriters--United States--Biography.
- Speechwriters.
- American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Political poetry, American--History and criticism.
- Political poetry, American.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 178 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : One World, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Over the past decade, Camonghne Felix has been at the center of American politics, working in strategy, communications, and as a speechwriter. Throughout it all, she has maintained her unwavering belief in language's foundational revolutionary potential, outside of its deployment for legislative and political ends. In this groundbreaking work of nonfiction, she argues that Black radical poetic traditions can model a new ethical code and overcome entrenched structures of patriarchy and paternalism, inventing a new form that examines the historical and legislative, and the personal and poetic. Felix draws on stories from her life in campaigns and the decisions she has had to make: preparing speeches for candidates, responding to harassment, recruiting staff. She recounts her moving personal history--accompanying her mother, a lawyer, to court, and her father, a participant in the Grenadian revolution of 1983, to protests--as well as her coming-of-age being schooled in a wider tradition of Black radical thinkers, from Gwendolyn Brooks to Audre Lorde. Let the Poets Govern encourages us to hold ourselves to the standards of our highest ideals and embraces our shared humanity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The lullaby and the nursery rhyme
- The pledge
- The sugar
- The order
- The spiritual
- The politics of now
- The olive season
- The fourth sermon on the warplane, or the coda.
- Other Format:
- Online version Felix, Camonghne Let the poets govern
- ISBN:
- 9780593242148
- 0593242149
- OCLC:
- 1534213144
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