ISBN: 9781524732585 - to the realization of perfect helplessness (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. A genre-bending exploration of poetry, photography, and human migration--another revelatory visual expedition from the National Book Award-winning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and the Black female figure. * Winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry "Lewis pushes the limits of language and image, composing lines alongside a cache of hundreds of photographs found under her late grandmother's bed only days before the house was slated to be razed." --Kevin Young, The New Yorker Twenty-five years ago, after her maternal grandmother's death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a stunning collection of photographs in an old suitcase under her bed, filled with everything from sepia tintypes to Technicolor Polaroids. Lewis's family had survived one of the largest migrations in human history, when six million Americans fled the South, attempting to escape from white supremacy and white terrorism. But these photographs of daily twentieth-century Black life revealed a concealed, interior history. The poetry Lewis joins to these vivid images stands forth as an inspiring alternative to the usual ways we frame the old stories of "race" and "migration," placing them within a much vaster span of time and history. In what she calls "a film for the hands" and "an origin myth for the future," Lewis reverses our expectations of both poetry and photography: "Black pages, black space, black time--the Big Black Bang." From glamorous outings to graduations, birth announcements, baseball leagues, and back-porch delight, Lewis creates a lyrical documentary about Black intimacy. Instead of colonial nostalgia, she offers us "an exalted Black privacy." What emerges is a dynamic reframing of what it means to be human and alive, with Blackness at its center. "I am trying / to make the gods / happy," she writes amid these portraits of her ancestors. "I am trying to make the dead / clap and shout.".…

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Hardcover. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 400 pages. 9.25x7.00x1.30 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. ROBIN COSTE LEWIS is the author Voyage of the Sable Venus, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The book was named a best book of the year by The New .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A genre-bending exploration of poetry, photography, and human migrationanother revelatory visual expedition from the National Book Awardwinning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and the Black female figure. Winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry"Lewis pushes the limits of language and image, composing lines alongside a cache of hundreds of photographs found under her late grandmother's bed only days before the house was slated to be razed."Kevin Young, The New YorkerTwenty-five years ago, after her maternal grandmother's death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a stunning collection of photographs in an old suitcase under her bed, filled with everything from sepia tintypes to Technicolor Polaroids. Lewis's family had survived one of the largest migrations in human history, when six million Americans fled the South, attempting to escape from white supremacy and white terrorism. But these photographs of daily twentieth-century Black life revealed a concealed, interior history. The poetry Lewis joins to these vivid images stands forth as an inspiring alternative to the usual ways we frame the old stories of "race" and "migration," placing them within a much vaster span of time and history.In what she calls "a film for the hands" and "an origin myth for the future," Lewis reverses our expectations of both poetry and photography: "Black pages, black space, black timethe Big Black Bang." From glamorous outings to graduations, birth announcements, baseball leagues, and back-porch delight, Lewis creates a lyrical documentary about Black intimacy. Instead of colonial nostalgia, she offers us "an exaltedBlack privacy." What emerges is a dynamic reframing of what it means to be human and alive, with Blackness at its center. "I am trying / to make the gods / happy," she writes amid these portraits of her ancestors. "I am trying to make the dead / clap and shout.".…