{"product_id":"all-saints-new-and-selected-poems","title":"All Saints: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAll Saints: New and Selected Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBrenda Marie Osbey\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780807121986\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eLSU Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1997\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1st\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003e Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of twenty narrative poems venerates the dead. Brenda Marie Osbey invokes, impersonates, and converses with her Afro-New Orleans forebears--both blood ancestors and spiritual predecessors--weaving in hypnotic cadence a spell as potent as the religious and magical mysteries of her native culture. In \u003ci\u003eAll Saints \u003c\/i\u003ewe come to believe the dead do live, in the slave bricks paving the city's faubourgs, in the Hoodoo rites and images of saints, and especially in ourselves, who \"walk upon the earth a living man \/ wearing all the shrouds of mourning like a skin \/ and memory like a stone inside your organs.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Assisted by a glossary of New Orleans ethnic expressions, place names, and characters, we discern in these poems a multitude of voices that speak to us from colonial times forward. We hear Juan San Malo, leader of a slave rebellion; Luis Congo, a free Kongo man; myriad brothers and sisters, both distinct and collective; and the city itself, \"thrumming \/ eternal \/ ever \/ at the tracks.\" Chanting, lamenting, outpouring, \u003ci\u003ehealing\u003c\/i\u003e--Osbey's poems measure her own musical refrain to the past while keeping time with the present: \"we cry out together \/ in time to hear their cries.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"All Saints: New and Selected Poems | Brenda Marie Osbey | Quality | 9780807121986 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1397173","offer_id":48713029189784,"sku":"1397173","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41P-mJrecgL.jpg?v=1773787246","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/all-saints-new-and-selected-poems","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}