In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life
of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love, and the African American
experience and arranges them as white pebbles marking our common
journey toward a ""monstrous love / that wants to make the world
right."" Nelson is a poet of stunning power, able to bring alive
the most rarified and subtle of experiences. A slave destined to
become a minister preaches sermons of heartrending eloquence and
wisdom to a mule. An old woman scrubbing over a washtub receives a
personal revelation of what Emancipation means: ""So this is
freedom: the peace of hours like these."" Memories of the heroism
of the Tuskegee Airmen in the face of aerial combat abroad and
virulent racism at home bring a speaker to the sudden awareness of
herself as the daughter ""of a thousand proud fathers."" Whether
evoking spiritual longing or a return to the wedding at Cana,
Nelson renders the interior landscape of all her speakers with
absolute precision. This is a beautiful collection indeed, and
readers will come away from The Fields of Praise with a reawakened
appreciation for life's minor miracles, one of them being the power
of the word.
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