Macnolia: Poems
詩を通じて黒人女性の名を冠したマクノリアの記憶を描く作品集。歴史の中で見落とされがちな声を、詩の力で掬い上げる。
作品情報
記憶と名づけをめぐる詩集。
詩を通して、歴史に埋もれた声や名づけられた存在の記憶を描く。個人史と集団史が重なり合う構成が印象的である。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- 発売日
- 2005-12-01
- ページ数
- 134ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 1.02 x 21.08 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780393327649
- ISBN-10
- 0393327647
- 価格
- 3630 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
In 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a doctor was changed irrevocably. Her story, told in a poignant nonlinear narrative, illustrates the power of a pivotal moment in a life.
A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry. He has been a finalist for the Rilke Prize and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award. He is the humanities and sciences chair of English literature at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.
レビュー
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Brilliant, lyrical, a rich new voice.
Poems that tell stories and paint pictures. Accomplished and visionary. An important addition to the African-American domestic is political genre.
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A true story beautifully written in poetry
This is a beautiful volume of poetry that will speak to non-poetry readers as well. Very different styles of poetry tell the story of a life.
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Poetry at its best
Such a special account. The poems evoke such emotion. Lost my first one, so had to order another one. Put these poems in your library!
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Deep, Rich & Bittersweet
Deep, rich and bittersweet. You learn about black history reading this poetry. It is often heartbreaking and brought tears to my eyes. Excellent literature and pure joy to read.
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Excellent book. It was a required reading for school ...
Excellent book. It was a required reading for school but I really enjoyed it and am glad that I read it!
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