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Dark days : fugitive essays
Title:
Dark days : fugitive essays
Author:
Reeves, Roger, author.
ISBN:
9781644452417
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Uniform Title:
Essays. Selections
Physical Description:
223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Our angel of history -- Through the smoke, through the veil, through the wind -- A little brown liquor -- Beyond the report of beauty -- On ecstasy -- Letters to Michael Brown -- Singing into the silence of the state -- Peace be still -- Reading fire, reading the stars -- "Poetry isn't revolution but a way of knowing why it must come" -- "Intimate freedoms, intimate futures -- Notes on the underground -- Something good.
Abstract:
"The first book of nonfiction from an award-winning poet combines memoir, theory and criticism to find common purpose between Black and Indigenous peoples and reflects on the new meanings of silence, protest, fugitivity, freedom and ecstasy"-- Provided by publisher.
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