The Gospel according to Wild Indigo (Paperback)

Consisting of two dynamic song cycles, Cyrus Cassells's sixth poetry volume, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo, keeps the reader on edge with a timeless and beguiling feast of language that fuses together history, memory, and family. The first cycle, rooted in the culture of the Gullah people of Charleston and the Sea Islands, celebrates the resilience of the rice- and indigo-working slaves and their descendants who have forged a unique Africa-inspired language and culture. Set against a Mediterranean backdrop, the second cycle explores themes of pilgrimage, love, and loss, concluding with a pair of elegies to the poet's mother and the many men lost in the juggernaut of the AIDS crisis. Throughout, Cassells invites the reader to consider the duality of grief and love, as well as the shifting connections between past and present. Cassells's language is always striking, unpredictable, and beautiful, conjuring a world not only of "placid seagulls perched / in priest-gentle pines / like festive Christmas ornaments" but also one where "Death prevailed, / tireless as a forest partisan." His poems transport the reader across time, space, and language, searching constantly not just for empathy but also for the human spirit in its triumph, for "our human joy, / laced with an ageless grieving."

General

Imprint:	Southern Illinois University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2018
Authors:	Cyrus Cassells
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-0-8093-3660-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8093-3660-X
Barcode:	9780809336609

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