Blue Front
アメリカ南部の人種暴力を、断片的で詩的な語りと資料のコラージュでたどる詩集。個人の記憶と歴史の証言が重なり合う。
作品情報
証言の断片が、暴力の記憶を消えにくくする。
イリノイ州カーイロで起きたリンチ事件と、その現場を子どものころに見た父の記憶を軸に、Martha Collins が白人性と暴力の歴史を詩で検証する。
レビュー要約
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断片的な構成に最初は戸惑いがあるものの、終盤で強く響くという受け止め方が多い。暴力を言葉にする手つきが高く評価されている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Graywolf Pr
- 発売日
- 2006-05-25
- ページ数
- 84ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.6 x 0.48 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781555974497
- ISBN-10
- 155597449X
- 価格
- 3221 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins the victim hanged, though not on a tree, this was not the country, they used a steel arch with electric lights, and later a lamppost, this was a modern event, the trees were not involved. from Blue Front Martha Collinss father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking. In Blue Front , Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the mercilessness of the spectators. The poems patch together an arresting array of evidencenewspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collinss speculations about her fathers own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.
Martha Collins is the author of four previous poetry collections, including Some Things Words Can Do , and co-translator of two volumes of poetry from the Vietnamese. She teaches at Oberlin College and lives in Oberlin, Ohio, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Martha Collins is the author of four previous poetry collections, including Some Things Words Can Do , and co-translator of two volumes of poetry from the Vietnamese. She teaches at Oberlin College and lives in Oberlin, Ohio, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Marth Collins teaches at Oberlin College.
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This woman is a shockingly fine, eviscerating poet. She takes on large things with the precision of a neurosurgeon, with the clarity of a Buddhist monk, with the immediacy and honesty of a child. One would not want to live in her skin, with her antennae. But we finish this book grateful, shaken, enlarged. Martha Collins and Blue Front are the almost too-real thing.
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I was skeptical at first given the subtitle of Martha Collins' book being "a poem." However, it is beautifully written and has a unity that is rivaled only by the varying forms that Collins uses throughout.
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I gave this book of poetry 5 stars because Ms. Collins totally captures so many individual scenes and differing emotions relating to this tragic event.
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Excellent
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