Alpha Zulu - Softcover

Lilley, Gary Copeland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931337381 ISBN 13: 9781931337380

Verlag: Ausable Press, 2008

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Unusual book

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Review of previous work: ..". redemption is found not in the hope that literature inspires political action, but in art itself--in the telling, Copeland Lilley writes in an African American vernacular still rarely heard in poetry, despite its prevalence in our culture at large and in virtually every other genre--fiction, music, drama, movies, and television. This English, spoken from North Carolina, to Philly, to D.C., helps to form a poetry of place"NewPages.com

Reseña del editor:

"(Lilley's) verse brings beauty to the almost-failed world it creates."—Rain Taxi

"Lilley's power comes partly from his sound: syncopated, densely compacted, defiantly resigned."—The Believer

Alpha—the beginning; the first letter of the military alphabet; the highest rank in a dominance hierarchy; being the most prominent, talented, or aggressive person in a group. Zulu—tribe; a member of the Negroid people of eastern South Africa; a Social Aid and Pleasure Club in New Orleans; an adjective to describe the language, customs, etc., of the Zulu people. Alpha Zulu is a venture into African American storytelling; it is a blurring of secular and sacred, the tavern and the church, the fall and the ascension of the individual, the beautiful and the terrible, and the humanity found in the twist of the street and the turn of the road.

The people in the poems—the narrators and the subjects—tell the stories. The details and images locate each poem at the crossroad of ordinary people with extraordinary, edgy, and universal situations, and their responses are spiritual and streetwise. The lyricism of the line supplies a subtle blues and jazz as the underscore for a very particular community. Narrators and personas give perspectives of place and time, placing the poems fi rmly in the continuum of African culture in America.

Gary Copeland Lilley is a native of Sandy Cross, North Carolina, and the beauty of the southern edge of The Great Dismal Swamp is what he calls his ancestral home. He is veteran of the US Navy Submarine Force and a longtime blues denizen of Washington, DC, and Chicago, Illinois. He is also an outsider artist and currently lives in Swannanoa, North Carolina.

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• Verlag: Ausable Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1931337381
• ISBN 13: 9781931337380
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96