Masquerade: A Memoir in Poetry - Couverture souple

Wright, Carolyne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1736432338 ISBN 13 : 9781736432334

Editeur : Lost Horse Press, 2021

Synopsis

Masquerade is a jazz\-inflected, lyric\-narrative sequence of poems, a memoir in poetry set principally in pre\-Katrina New Orleans and in Seattle, involving an interracial couple who are artists and writers. Moved by mutual fascination, shared ideals and aspirations, and the passion they discover in each other, the two are challenged to find a place together in the cultures of both races and families, amid personal and political dislocations as well as questions of trustall against the backdrop of Americas racism and painful social history. The twentieth centurys global problem, the color line, as W. E. B. du Bois named it, is enacted here in microcosm between these lovers and fellow artists, who must face their own fears and unresolved conflicts in each other. Similar stories have been told from the male protagonists point of view; Masquerade is unique in foregrounding the female perspective.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carolyne Wright is author of This Dream the World: New and Selected Poems, whose title poem won a Pushcart Prize and also appeared in The Best American Poetry 2009. Her anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace, received ten Pushcart Prize nominations. She authored five earlier books of poetry, a volume of essays, and five award-winning volumes in translation from Spanish and Bengali. A contributing editor for the Pushcart Prizes, she teaches at Seattles Richard Hugo House and at conferences and festivals worldwide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lost Horse Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1736432338
• ISBN 13: 9781736432334
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible