All saints: new and selected poems
Auteur :
Osbey, Brenda Marie
Éditeur :
Louisiana State University Press
ISBN :
9780807121986
Date de publication :
30 nov. 1997
Dimensions :
22,6 x 13,7 x 1,0 cm
Poids :
231 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Like the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of twenty poems venerates the dead. Brenda Marie Osbey invokes, impersonates, and converses with her Afro-New Orleans forebears, both blood ancestors and spiritual predecessors, weaving in hypnotic cadence a spell as potent as the religious and magical mysteries of her native culture.