The fields of praise
new and selected poems
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Author
Publication
1997 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Language
English
Word Count
52,250 words, Guess
Page Count
209 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL662614M
- ISBN-100807121746
- OCLC Control Number36528309
- OCLC Control Numberfieldsofpraisene0000nels
- Library of Congress Control Number97008107
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1172431
- Goodreads1175414
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3564.E469 F54 1997
Description
In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love, and the African American experience and arranges them as white pebbles marking our common journey toward a "monstrous love / that wants to make the world right.". Nelson is a poet of stunning power, able to bring alive the most rarified and subtle of experiences. A slave destined to become a minister preaches sermons of heartrending eloquence and wisdom to a mule. An old woman scrubbing over a washtub receives a personal revelation of what Emancipation means: "So this is freedom: the peace of hours like these." Memories of the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen in the face of aerial combat abroad and virulent racism at home bring a speaker to the sudden awareness of herself as the daughter "of a thousand proud fathers."
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