Description
This ambitious collection journeys across time, geography, and cultural memory, bringing ancient myths, personal history, music, war, family, and contemporary life into vivid conversation. With jazz-inflected rhythms, dazzling verbal inventiveness, and forms ranging from sonnets to prose poems, the poems ask how the past shapes the present—and how imagination can help us dream ourselves into existence. Moving from the Louisiana bayous to classical mythology and from intimate family scenes to expansive communal histories, the collection explores identity, inheritance, mortality, love, and the sacred resilience of human creativity. Erudite yet emotionally immediate, these poems invite readers to listen more closely to the languages, stories, and “old questions” that connect us all.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published Jan 1, 2021
288 pages
ISBN: 9780374600143
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Details
First Published
2021
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth by Yusef Komunyakaa.