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Williams, Tyrone

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ISBN 10: 1890650331 ISBN 13: 9781890650339

Verlag: Omnidawn Publishing, 2007

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"Williams has taken African-American narrative lyric poetics and cross-pollinated them with experimental language poetry . . . comparable to the work of Junot Diaz and also hearkens to Jean Toomer's Cane, while capturing the playful qualities of Richard Brautigan." --"City Beat" Poem Talk podcast" ..". Herman Beavers contends that Tyrone Williams "sings the holes in history" and indicates ways in which "History with a capital H is not adequate to talk about all this stuff."-- "Poem Talk podcast" (3/23/2015 12:00:00 AM) Herman Beavers contends that Tyrone Williams sings the holes in history and indicates ways in which History with a capital H is not adequate to talk about all this stuff." Poem Talk podcast"

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Tyrone Williams reveals that every act of communication is a speculation, and that the spectacles we must use to see and assess it--those of our own particular condition and conditioning--are never without qualifying contour and coloration. Williams is a keen observer of the distortions of such lenses, as the titles of the two sections of this collection suggest--first is an "Eshuneutics" (interpretation purportedly infused with an Eshu's sensibility). But the trickster's eye can turn to mock even its own powers of analysis, as Williams deftly demonstrates by calling the second section "Pseudo-eshuneutics." While the issues that Williams confronts come directly from an attempt say what it might mean to understand aspects of the African American condition of diaspora in the United States, these poems also implicate and illuminate the speculative enterprise that we each venture into whenever we attempt to articulate what we see and what we believe about it. At once immediately readable, intensely meditative, and brilliantly braced with philosophical reference, these tours through our human need to speak, and to understand, travel beyond the boundaries that constrain most poetry collections. Poems, plays, plays upon the making of such genre distinctions, are only some of the locations one will visit in these pages.

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• Verlag: Omnidawn Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1890650331
• ISBN 13: 9781890650339
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160