Masquerade is a jazz-inflected, lyric-narrative sequence of poems,
a "memoir in poetry" set principally in pre-Katrina New Orleans and
in Seattle, involving an interracial couple who are artists and
writers. Moved by mutual fascination, shared ideals and
aspirations, and the passion they discover in each other, the two
are challenged to find a place together in the cultures of both
races and families, amid personal and political dislocations as
well as questions of trust--all against the backdrop of America's
racism and painful social history. The twentieth century's global
problem, the color line, as W. E. B. du Bois named it, is enacted
here in microcosm between these lovers and fellow artists, who must
face their own fears and unresolved conflicts in each other.
Similar stories have been told from the male protagonist's point of
view; Masquerade is unique in foregrounding the female perspective.
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