{"product_id":"faster-than-light-new-and-selected-poems-1996-2011-9780807147337","title":"Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marilyn Nelson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities.\u003cbr\u003ePoems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857 for the creation of Central Park. \"Bivouac in a Storm\" tells the story of a group of young soldiers, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, as they trained near Biloxi, Mississippi, \"marching in summer heat \/ thick as blackstrap molasses, under trees \/ haunted by whippings.\" Later pieces range from the poet's travels in Africa, Europe, and Polynesia, to poems written in collaboration with Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, a former Benedictine monk and the subject of Nelson's playful fictional fantasy sequence, \"Adventure-Monk!\" Both personal and historical, these poems remain grounded in everyday details but reach toward spiritual and moral truths.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47598910701719,"sku":"9780807147337","price":5748.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807147337.webp?v=1775002465","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/faster-than-light-new-and-selected-poems-1996-2011-9780807147337","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}