Unshuttered : poems
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Published
Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 98 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Status
Coos Bay Public Library - Adult/General New - Nonfiction
811.54 SMITH, PATRICIA Unshuttered
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811.54 SMITH, PATRICIA Unshuttered
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Location | Call Number | Note | Status |
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Coos Bay Public Library - Adult/General New - Nonfiction | 811.54 SMITH, PATRICIA Unshuttered | Donated in Memory of Francis Dibble by The Werner Family | Available |
Subjects
LC Subjects
African American families -- 19th century -- Portraits -- Poetry
African American men -- 19th century -- Portraits -- Poetry
African American women -- 19th century -- Portraits -- Poetry
African Americans -- 19th century -- History -- Poetry
African Americans -- 19th century -- Portraits -- Poetry
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Poetry
Historical poetry.
African American men -- 19th century -- Portraits -- Poetry
African American women -- 19th century -- Portraits -- Poetry
African Americans -- 19th century -- History -- Poetry
African Americans -- 19th century -- Portraits -- Poetry
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Poetry
Historical poetry.
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Published
Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2023.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Description
"In this poetry collection, an award-winning author presents a portrait of nineteenth-century Black America. This masterful and haunting mosaic is a search for lost histories, both personal and inherited"--,Provided by publisher.
Description
"Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time. Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Smith's searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives: 'We ache for fiction etched in black and white. Our eyes never touch. These tragic grays and bustles, mourners' hats plopped high upon our tamed but tangled crowns, strain to disguise what yearning does with us.' The poet's unrivaled dexterity with dramatic monologue and poetic form reanimates these countenances, staring back from such yesterdays, and the stories they may have told. This is one of American literature's finest wordsmiths doing what she does best--unreeling history to find its fierce and formidable lyric" --,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Smith, P. (2023). Unshuttered: poems . TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Patricia, 1955-. 2023. Unshuttered: Poems. TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Patricia, 1955-. Unshuttered: Poems TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Smith, Patricia. Unshuttered: Poems TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2023.
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