Toast in the House of Friends - 9781566892223

"Don't expect sense from these poems, in which grief, politics, literary theory, and sexuality interweave. But do expect language surprise and beautiful metaphors. . . . When [Akilah] Oliver presents her experiences in metaphor-rich language, the reader feels what she feels: incredible loss, infinite pain."—Library Journal

“An extraordinary gift for everyone.”—Alice Notley

Written for her son, Oluchi McDonald (1982–2003), Akilah Oliver’s poems incorporate prose, theory, and lyric performance into a powerful testimony of loss and longing. In their journey through the borderlands of sorrow, they grapple with violence, find expression in chants, and, like the graffiti she analyzes, become a place of public and artistic memorial. “If memory is the act of bearing witness,” she writes, “then the dream is a friend driving us somewhere.”

Akilah Oliver is the author of the she said dialogues, recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she currently lives in Brooklyn and curates the Monday Night Reading Series at the Poetry Project.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo del Libro in lingua: Toast in the House of Friends
• Lingua: English
• Autore:  Akilah Oliver
• Editore: Coffee House Pr
• Collana: Coffee House Pr (Paperback)
• Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Febbraio '09
• Genere: POETRY
• Argomenti :  Grief Poetry Loss (Psychology) Poetry American poetry African American authors
• Pagine: 97
• Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 6
• ISBN-10: 1566892228
• EAN-13: 9781566892223