More Than Meat and Raiment - Poems (Paperback)

Angela Jackson returns with a poetic collage that draws on imagery from the African American South and the South Side of Chicago, storytelling, the Black Arts Movement, and Hausa folklore. Deftly using narrative and free verse, she artfully expresses the complexities, beauty, and haunts of the multilayered Black voice. Jackson offers a stirring mixture of the music, food, and soul that have come to characterize her lyrical work. The speakers of these poems reflect on memory and saga, history and legend. Voices recall evenings spent catching fireflies with a younger sister, the aroma of homemade rolls, the father who squeezes papers into his wallet alongside bills in order to appear wealthy ("a flock of green birds rustling inside/ to get out for some extravagance"). A Black girl watches TV and dreams of the perfect partner. A citizen contends with the unrelenting devastation of police violence in a work reminiscent of Gwendolyn Brooks's "verse journalism." A mother loses her daughter only to witness her rebirth: "Praise be / the human being / that is being." In "For Our People," an homage to Margaret Walker, Jackson summons the resilience and imagination of African Americans, celebrating "each of us injured or exalted, betrayer or betrayed, muted / and declamatory, all one, each of us all of us, each a private star beloved in the universe." Lauded as one of American poetry's most vivid voices, Jackson continues her reign as one of the country's foremost wordsmiths. This sublime collection delves deep into the porch stories and folktales that have carried the Black voice through all its histories.

General

Imprint:	Northwestern University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2022
Authors:	Angela Jackson
Editors:	Parneshia Jones
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-8101-4456-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8101-4456-5
Barcode:	9780810144569

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