Isbn: 9780984953684 - first light and other poems (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 106 pages. 7.90x4.80x0.30 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Born in 1960 in Newark, New Jersey, Roberts Counts grew up poor in the projects. Incarcerated at twenty, he began to read everything he could find from Shakespeare and Malcolm X to Einstein and Robert Frost. Gradually, he taught himself to write poetry. His poems, signed Ishmael Shamsid-din-as he was known for almost thirty years-deal with ghetto violence, the goodness and beauty of nature, and love as a source of redemption. With wit and lyric energy, Counts shows us what it takes to resist bitterness and nurture hope. 'These are poems of struggle: with language, in the first instance; with the mechanisms that spin the universe; with the gods and goddesses of love; but most of all with a recalcitrant self which refuses worn and easy paths.' -Paul Lauter, Editor, The Heath Anthology of American Literature.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextIncarcerated at 20, Counts taught himself to write poetry. His poems, signed Ishmael Shamsid-dinNas he was known for almost 30 yearsNdeal with ghetto violence, the goodness and beauty of nature, and love as a source of redempt.