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This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump-about much more
than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense
of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election,
since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes.
There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-two
poets featured include Juan Felipe Herrera, Richard Blanco, Carolyn
Forche, Patricia Smith, Robert Pinsky, Donald Hall, Elizabeth
Alexander, Ocean Vuong, Marge Piercy, Yusef Komunyakaa, Brian
Turner, and Naomi Shihab Nye. They speak of persecuted and
scapegoated immigrants. They bear witness to violence: police
brutality against African Americans, mass shootings in a school or
synagogue. They testify to poverty, the waitress surviving on
leftovers at the restaurant, the battles of a teacher in a shelter
for homeless mothers, the emergency-room doctor listening to the
heartbeats of his patients. There are voices of labor, in the
factory and the fields. There are prophetic voices, imploring us to
imagine the world we will leave behind in ruins lest we speak and
act. However, this is not merely a collection of grievances. The
poets build bridges. One poet steps up to translate in Arabic at
the airport; another declaims a musical manifesto after the
hurricane that devastated his island; another evokes a
demonstration in the street, an ecstasy of defiance, the joy of
resistance. The poets take back the language, resisting the
demagogic corruption of words themselves. They assert our common
humanity.
ADVENTURES IN BLACK AND WHITE, a memoir-travelogue first published
in 1960, is being reissued with a critical introduction, including
minor edits and annotations of the original text by scholar Tara
Betts. Recognized as a prodigy at an early age, Philippa Duke
Schuyler was heralded as America's first internationally-acclaimed
mixed race celebrity. Her father, a conservative black journalist,
and her mother, a white Texan heiress, dedicated Schuyler's
development to the cause of integration with the claim that racial
mixing could produce a superior hybrid human, a claim that Schuyler
resisted, but would nonetheless hurl her into a destructive
identity crisis that consumed her throughout her life. When the
transition from child prodigy to concert pianist proved challenging
in America, Schuyler, like many black performers before her, went
abroad during the 1950s for larger audiences. Schuyler's witnessing
first-hand the dissemblage of European colonies in Africa and the
Middle East is the focus of ADVENTURES IN BLACK AND WHITE. This
narrative connects the Harlem Renaissance to the prelude of the
Civil Rights Movement at a time when the public conversation on
interracial identity in America was just beginning. As Schuyler
writes about Africa--"the homeland of her ancestors"--readers can
begin to understand how the young musician would eventually find
her way as an author and a journalist, and the books that followed.
THE BEIGING OF AMERICA, BEING MIXED RACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, takes
on race matters and considers them through the firsthand accounts
of mixed race people in the United States. Edited by mixed-race
scholars Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara
Betts, this collection consists of 39 poets, writers, teachers,
professors, artists and activists, whose personal narratives
articulate the complexities of interracial life. THE BEIGING OF
AMERICA was prompted by cultural critic/scholar Hua Hsu, who
contemplated the changing face and race of U.S. demographics in his
2009 The Atlantic article provocatively titled The End of White
America. In it, Hsu acknowledged steadily ascending rates of
interracial marriage that undergirded assertions about the beiging
of America. THE BEIGING OF AMERICA is an absorbing and
thought-provoking collection of stories that explore racial
identity, alienation, with people often forced to choose between
races and cultures in their search for self-identity. While
underscoring the complexity of the mixed-race experience, these
unadorned voices offer a genuine, poignant, enlightening and
empowering message to all readers.
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