{"product_id":"faster-than-light-new-and-selected-poems-1996-2011","title":"Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFaster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMarilyn Nelson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780807147344\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eLSU Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2013\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 | Marilyn Nelson | Quality | 9780807147344 | New | Poetry 1374073","offer_id":48757645934744,"sku":"1374073","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41qwFRuWS3L.jpg?v=1774235682","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/faster-than-light-new-and-selected-poems-1996-2011","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}