Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011

by Marilyn Nelson

Book Overview

Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities.
Poems include the stories of historical figures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807147346
• ISBN13: 9780807147344
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"