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Second Nature
Engelsk
Bogcover for Second Nature af Chaun Ballard, 9781960145529
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
93
ISBN-13:
9781960145529
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1960145525
Udg. Dato:
15 maj 2025
Størrelse i cm:
21,5 x 21,6 x 1,2
Oplagsdato:
15 maj 2025
Forfatter(e):

Second Nature

Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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Winner of the 23rd annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize

Chaun Ballard’s gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban.

Riddled with the ghostly voices of family and friends, Second Nature is fearless in its wrestling with America’s fractured past and troubled present. In these poems, W.E.B. DuBois and Fredrick Douglass have a conversation, Michael Brown meditates on the nature of the cosmos, Johnnie Taylor’s guitar sings in sonnets, and the road Walt Whitman set out upon comes alive for a new generation.

Through innovative re-imaginings of the sonnet, the pastoral, and the contrapuntal, Ballard engages with popular culture while examining the intricacies of all that is wedded together—form and content, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, husband and wife, and a nation long dependent on created binaries that serve to maintain structures of oppression.

Interspersed with quotations and inspired by the rich legacy of poets who came before himincluding poet Matthew Shenoda who provides an insightful Foreword to the collectionSecond Nature is a testament to interconnectedness, a love letter to the deep roots that we come from, and a reminder of the myriad ways in which one’s identity is shaped by community and country.­­­

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
93
ISBN-13:
9781960145529
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1960145525
Udg. Dato:
15 maj 2025
Størrelse i cm:
21,5 x 21,6 x 1,2
Oplagsdato:
15 maj 2025
Forfatter(e):
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