A fire in the hills : poems / Afaa M. Weaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (83 pages)

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California : Red Hen Press, [2023]

Summary:

"In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those revelations of sublimation of self gives way here to a material focus. The racial references are explicit as are the complexities of life lived as a Black man born in America in the mid-twentieth century. These are poems emanating from an attempt to follow Daoist philosophy for most of his life. Knowledge of other is in relation to knowledge of self, and self is an illusory continuum, a perspective wherein the poet embodies the transcendent arc of Malcolm X's life as credo"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Contents

Notes As Our Dead Seek Justice

I

In a Border Town

All American

My First Gun

Math Lesson

Shotgun

My History Homework, Mr. Jeff Fort

Blues in Five/Four, the Violence in Chicago

Game of Losing, 1968

The Sirens of Saigon

Requiem for the Coupe De Ville

A Poem for Freddie Gray, Baltimore

What a Fellowship

An Elegy for Lucille Clifton

II

What Is Left

The Great Foot

What Elizabeth Bishop Could Not Know

Proposition Joe, from the Grave

Charleston

Jobs or Not, the Hustle

When We Are Truck Drivers

The N Line to Brooklyn

Good Uncles

The Shaw Brothers

Richard Pryor Is Dead

All Ghosts Rise, Black Theater

Inosculation, an Ode to Walt Whitman

III

A South Carolina State of Nation Mind

Midnight Air in Louisville

This Civil War Yet Unresolved

When the Slavers Died at Sea

Back Spin of Hope

When I Think of Vietnam

Sacred

To Malcolm X On His Second Coming

Ephemera

God Is

Biographical Note

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Weaver, Afaa M. A Fire in the Hills

ISBN:

9781636280837

OCLC:

1375294700