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'Thirty Angry Ghosts' is a collection of poems written in the voices of famous figures from history including Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Genghis Khan and Abraham Lincoln. Historically-accurate biographies are included at the back of the book.
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Loving the skin you're in is a statement within itself. Children of color need to understand why they should love their black. The older you get, the more proud one should be of their skin tone. Be confident in your Black. Stand tall in your Black. Never look down on your Black. Reading this book will help you understand that and more.
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself “Bailey invites us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological.” —Carl Phillips, from the Foreword The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey’s “poems argue for hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance.”
An important ethnographic analysis of motherhood in one Melanesian society