Search Results
Showing Item 1 of 1
All the names given
Book
First US edition.
"On the heels of his much-lauded debut collection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigation into language, miscommunication, place, and memory in All The Names Given, while simultaneously breaking new ground in both form and content. The collection opens with poems about the author's surname-one that shouldn't have survived into modernity-and examines the rich and fraught history carried within it. The book is punctuated with [Caption Poems] partially inspired by Deaf sound artist ChristineSun Kim, which speak to the spaces between the poems as well as the moments inside them. As Antrobus outlines a childhood caught between intimacy and brutality, sound and silence, and conflicting racial and cultural identities, the poem becomes a space inwhich the poet reckons with his own ancestry, and bears witness to the indelible violence of the legacy wrought by colonialism. The poems travel through space-shifting fluidly between England, South Africa, Jamaica, and the American South-and brilliantlymove from an examination of family history into the wandering lust of adolescence and finally, vividly, into a complex array of marriage poems-matured, wiser, and more accepting of love's fragility. Formally sophisticated, with a weighty perception and startling directness, All The Names Given is a timely, tender book full of humanity and remembrance from one of the most important young poets of our generation"--
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
0 current holds with 3 total copies.View other formats and editions
| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenburgh Public Library | 821.92 A (Text) Nonfiction |
31009154876233 |
Available - |
| Mount Vernon Public Library | 821 A (Text) Nonfiction |
31018155624484 |
Available - |
| Yonkers Riverfront Library | 821 A (Text) Nonfiction |
31035162436512 |
Available - |
Search Results
Showing Item 1 of 1