Rise

By A. Van Jordan

Winner of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award In this superb and eagerly anticipated debut collection by the young African American poet A. Van Jordan, the energy and music of Jordan's language, his honesty of feeling and of truth telling, are matched by his freshness and power. His stuff shines, sweat pours off it, says Joy Harjo. And there is a kind of solidity and reality in Jordan's poems that display varieties of experience and depths of meditation too rarely found in contemporary American poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882688260
• ISBN13: 9781882688265
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Tia Chucha Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.8" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

The Real Deal

this book is rooted in blues and jazz. jordan has a good ear for down home speech and an excellent eye for observation and history. in the poem " overcoat, " he tells a poiganat tale about police harassment in a shopping mall in white suburban ohio. " kind of blue " tells about an ex-lover, the music of miles davis and of drug addiction. the poems about john henry and robert johnson definately qualify as black folklore and they are a pleasure to read. the poem voodoo which a fellow poet disses a poem jordan wrote about a woman they were both involved with is funny. tia chuca press always puts out good work