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Genre/Form: | Poetry |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rachel Long |
ISBN: | 9781951142711 1951142713 |
OCLC Number: | 1236091042 |
Awards: | "The Costa Poetry Award. The Jhalak Prize, and the Forward Felix Dennis Prize for the Best First Collection"--Page 4 of cover. |
Description: | 79 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Open. Open -- Hotel Art, Barcelona -- Night Vigil -- Sandwiches -- The Clean -- Open -- Bike -- 8 -- Open -- Apples -- Helena -- The Garden -- Open -- Portent -- The Yearner -- Red Hoover -- Open -- A Lineage Of Wigs. Orb -- Referring to the House as the Whole Street -- The Musical Box -- So Low -- Mum's Snake -- The Cow and the Moon -- Car Sweetness -- Bloodlines -- And then there was the time I got into a fight -- Jail Letter -- Wire -- Red Roof -- Danielle's Dad -- Inside -- Divine Healing -- Night -- Communion -- Funeral Brochure -- Holiday Album -- The Omen -- Dolls. Interview with B. Tape II -- Steve -- Black Princess! Black Princess! -- Self-Portrait with Baby -- Thanksgiving -- Other Women's Babies. |
Responsibility: | Rachel Long. |
Abstract:
"Each poem in Rachel Long's award-winning My Darling from the Lions has a vivid story to tell-of family quirks, the perils of dating, the grip of religion, or sexual awakening-stories that are, by turn, emotionally insightful, politically conscious, wise, funny, and outrageous. Told in three sections, it's a book about growing up, falling in love with not-great men, and girlhood; a collection that speaks to femininity, divinity, familial shame, Black identity, and modern culture. Long reveals herself as a razor-sharp and original voice on the issues of sexual politics and cultural inheritance that polarize our current moment. With a fresh commitment to the power of the individual poem, her collection offers immediate, wide-awake poetry that entertains royally, without sacrificing a note of its urgency or remarkable skill. My Darling from the Lions marks the arrival of a thrilling new voice and presence in poetry"--
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