{"product_id":"faster-than-light-1","title":"Faster Than Light","description":"Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, \u003cem\u003eFaster Than Light\u003c\/em\u003e explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857 for the creation of Central Park. \"\"Bivouac in a Storm\"\" tells the story of a group of young soldiers, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, as they trained near Biloxi, Mississippi, \"\"marching in summer heat \/ thick as blackstrap molasses, under trees \/ haunted by whippings.\"\" Later pieces range from the poet's travels in Africa, Europe, and Polynesia, to poems written in collaboration with Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, a former Benedictine monk and the subject of Nelson's playful fictional fantasy sequence, \"\"Adventure-Monk!\"\" Both personal and historical, these poems remain grounded in everyday details but reach toward spiritual and moral truths.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57258618356056,"sku":"9780807147344","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/faster-than-light-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}