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What Noise Against the Cane
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Title
What Noise Against the Cane / Desiree C. Bailey.
ISBN
9780300259872
Publication
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (96 p.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself†‹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.&rdquo
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 23, 2021
Series
Yale Series of Younger Poets
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Chant for the Waters and Dirt and Blade
Guesswork
Ma and the Snake
First American Years
La Divina Pastora, Mother of Miracles
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Woman in Dub
Fleshed Cartographies
Harriet Jacobs Grips the Silence
Malady
Dancing at the Shrine in Harlem
It's Risky to Love in the Season of Hunters
Island
A Retrograde
Orfeu Negro / Black Orpheus
Accent
Ex(ile)
Flowers Pressed to My Head
Chant for the Waters and Dirt and Blade (Slight Return)
Notes
Acknowledgments
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