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The Trembling Tiber: A black poet's musings on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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Availability:In StockContributor:Neal HallPublish date:4/6/2020Pages:146
Language:EnglishPublisher:L'AlephISBN-13:9789176375884ISBN-10:9176375889UPC:9789176375884Book Category:Poetry, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:American, Black Studies (Global)Size:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SC6YMVVED6

"Winner of the Greece's Eyelands International Poetry Book Award"

When a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, Neal Hall was stopped at gunpoint by a member of the Italian special forces. His offense: being black while walking about in an affluent white district. The soldier profiled him as an illegal African alien. By chance, the colorcoded indignity fell on the Ides of March, the day Caesar was assassinated. This coincidence inspired Hall to take a deep dive into Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Thought the first of its kind, the hybrid poetic narratives emerging from this exploration interweave Shakespearean tools with those of Hall's own craft and speak in direct, powerful new ways to universal contemporary issues of freedom and equality. The poems, by providing new prisms through which to view today's power constructs, challenge the reader to recognize the coded and decoded socio-political-economic struggles of marginalized people today and to question for whom liberty's bell truly tolls.

Language:EnglishPublisher:L'AlephISBN-13:9789176375884ISBN-10:9176375889UPC:9789176375884Book Category:Poetry, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:American, Black Studies (Global)Size:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SC6YMVVED6
Hall, Neal: - Neal Hall was trained as a medical-surgical eye physician. He is a graduate of Cornell and Harvard Universities. An award winning, internationally acclaimed poet, he has composed poetry and performed readings throughout the U.S. and internationally. Hall's poetry speaks not just to the surface pain of injustice and inhumanity but probes deep into that pain, labeled and packaged into genteel socio-political-economic-religious constructs to blur the common lines of cause. Two of his narratives-Blood On Our Hands and Where Do I Sit-informed the widely acclaimed Indian play Beyond Borders. The female cast explored boundaries of nationality, caste, color, ethnicity, gender, sexuality erected by men to ease men's fears, insecurities, and hunger for power. Beyond Borders questioned whether these boundaries are more important than humanity itself. American's intellectual and black activist Cornel West has called Hall "a warrior of the spirit, a warrior of the mind" whose "poetry has the capacity to change ordinary people's philosophy on social and racial issues." Vasanth Kannabiran, India's revered activist and poet, has remarked: "This is poetry that scalds you into waking up to the possibility that you are perhaps one of [the] silent spectators. Unquestionably [Hall is] one of the most significant voices of the century."
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