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

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."