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Book

Dark days : fugitive essays

Call Number

  • 814 R3322 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2023]

Physical Description

223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Summary

"The first book of nonfiction from an award-winning poet combines memoir, theory and criticism to find common purpose between Black and Indigenous peoples and reflects on the new meanings of silence, protest, fugitivity, freedom and ecstasy"--

Contents

  • Our angel of history
  • Through the smoke, through the veil, through the wind
  • A Little brown liquor
  • Beyond the report of beauty
  • On ecstasy
  • Letters to Michael Brown
  • Singing into the silence of the state
  • Peace be still
  • Reading fire, reading the stars
  • "Poetry isn't revolution but a way of knowing why it must come"
  • Intimate freedoms, intimate futures
  • Notes on the underground
  • Something good.

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