Mass for Shut-Ins: Volume 117 - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Mary-Alice Daniel, Rae ArmantroutSeries:Yale Younger PoetsPublish date:2023-03-21Pages:120
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300267990ISBN-10:300267991UPC:9780300267990Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women AuthorsBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.13 x 5.98 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.35Product ID:SC7H1K912D
The 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds "Against humans creating hell on earth, Daniel draws on animistic, Islamic, and syncretic Christian traditions from her native Nigeria to unleash potent incantations, rituals and spells, electric as St. Elmo's fire. Buckle up."--Rae Armantrout, judge In Mass for Shut-Ins, African and Western mythic systems and modern rituals originate an ill-omened universe. Here, it is always night, grim night, under absurd moons. Venturing through dreamscapes, hellscapes, and lurid landscapes, poems map speculative fields of spiritual warfare. This collection is controlled chaos powered by nightmare fuel. It animates an utterly odd organism: a cosmology cobbled with scripture, superstition, mass media, mad science. Horrid, holy, unholy--these pages overrun with the unhinged, intrusive thoughts that obsess us all late into nighttime.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300267990ISBN-10:300267991UPC:9780300267990Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women AuthorsBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.13 x 5.98 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.35Product ID:SC7H1K912D
Mary-Alice Daniel was born in northern Nigeria and raised in England and Tennessee. She holds a PhD from the University of Southern California. She is the author of A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents. Rae Armantrout is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry, most recently Finalists, Conjure, and Wobble.
Publisher: Yale University Press
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