Description
This resonant poetry collection explores the struggle for freedom within the many forms of containment—race, heritage, spirituality, the body, and inherited cultural traditions. Moving between the everyday and the dreamlike, the poems bring together figures and influences as varied as Harriet Tubman, Fela Kuti, Wallace Stevens, and the rhythms of popular culture, revealing how identity is continually constructed and remade. With disarming humor, tenderness, and lyrical daring, the collection braids personal experience with history, desire, loss, and artistic inheritance. Its inventive language embraces tradition even as it transforms it, creating poetry that is both darkly contemplative and buoyantly alive.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books
Published Jan 1, 2006
95 pages
ISBN: 0143036866
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Details
First Published
2006
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes.