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Difficult Fruit grapples with personal experience - with naming and
claiming the 'fruits' of a specific journey into womanhood. This
journey is one which includes coming to terms with violence and
loss, celebrating love and connection, and standing witness in the
world that shaped that journey. It is a collection of poems about
coming into self-knowledge - of fighting for and winning personhood
as a woman in the world. The central poem, 'Eighteen', chronicles
the aftermath of sexual assault. In it the speaker is reborn from
the shadow of the experience as a 'miracle scream' and a 'dark
voice', and vows to 'learn the language that will allow [her] to
summon [her] own angels'. By the poem 'Thirty', the speaker
understands 'maybe older and wiser is just learning/ how to put
yourself in your own good hands'. The poems of age scattered
throughout the manuscript both chronicle and disrupt time - they
look back into the speaker's past as a way to understand the
present, as well as to find something that the speaker needs in
order to move forward. The many elegies in the collection consider
the ultimate price of life, which is death, and as the poem 'How It
Touches Us' comes to realise, 'all laws of matter must hold true'.
The poems are a movement through fracture - both necessary and
unwarranted - toward wholeness and transformation.
"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo
Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate
change and other environmental degradations become more evident,
experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer
emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling
these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find
a source of companionship, inspiration, and advice. The concept of
solastalgia comes from the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht,
who describes it as "the homesickness we feel while still at home."
It's the pain and longing we feel as we realize the world
immediately around us is changing, with our love for that world
serving as a catalyst for action on its behalf. This powerful
anthology brings together thirty-four writers-educators,
journalists, poets, and scientists-to share their emotions in the
face of environmental crisis. They share their solastalgia, their
beloved places, their vulnerability, their stories, their vision of
what we can create.
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Honeyfish (Paperback)
Lauren K. Alleyne
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R303
R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
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Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an
anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning poets,
including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed,
combined with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars
such as Kwame Dawes, Evie Shockley, and Meta DuEwa Jones. The
Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation's first academic center
for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Joanne V.
Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne bring together many of the paramount
voices in Black poetry and poetics active today, composing an
electrifying mosaic of voices, generations, and aesthetics that
reveals the Black narrative in the work of twentieth- and
twenty-first-century writers. Intellectually enlightening and
powerfully enlivening, Furious Flower explores and celebrates the
idea of the Black poetic voice, to ask, "What's next for Black
poetic expression?
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Honeyfish (Paperback)
Lauren K. Alleyne
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R416
R342
Discovery Miles 3 420
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"These poems love. Prophesize. Return us to our beginnings. To days
that we want to remember. Or forget. But don't. Thus in our
sister's memory, we survive in the luxury of dying. The courage of
loving. The re-imagining of our souls for another generation. Thank
you, my dear sister for your words saluting our living, our lives."
--Sonia Sanchez, winner of the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Academy of American Poets "In exquisitely crafted poems of
heart-accelerating candor and clarity, Lauren K. Alleyne says to
all the black bodies slain by hatred and militarized fear, 'Nothing
I say will save you, but how can I say nothing?' Honeyfish is an
elegy for all the countless lost, and a praise song for the many
black lives that persist in their wish to give and receive love."
-- Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States of America
"Even in the places we think of as most beautiful, the endless gong
of the body being broken and defiled will find us. How can we see
the sun and the ocean and the clear blue sky as anything other than
a kind of cruel joke in the face of so much suffering? The
extraordinary gift of Lauren K Alleyne's, Honeyfish is that she
shows the world in all its brutality and loss and somehow lets us
mourn within the poems, which in turn allows us to begin some kind
of healing. These are poems whose elegy is ongoing, whose elegy
need never happened but for hatred. The waves go in and out and so
many people keep being killed. And here is this extraordinary poet,
making a heaven that is freedom, that is the dream of being
welcomed and loved and tended to. This is a book for our times and
for the day when these times are over and we can rejoice." --
Gabrielle Calvacoressi, author of Rocket Fantastic
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