Bibliograph

There's a revolution outside, my love, letters from a crisis, edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman

Type

Label

There's a revolution outside, my love, letters from a crisis, edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

There's a revolution outside, my love

Oclc number

1226169504

Responsibility statement

edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman

Sub title

letters from a crisis

Summary

"This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today--Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor--to give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born in an era of revolution and change." --, Provided by publisher2020: We are living through an unprecedented, revolutionary era. The Covid-19 crisis has cost people loved ones, livelihoods, and homes. Protests erupted over the constant brutality against Black Americans. This anthology fans out across a shattered America, with letters, essays, poems, and exhortations that offer a kaleidoscopic view of survival, grief, and the search for joy. -- adapted from back cover

Table Of Contents

Salutation in search of / Patricia Smith -- Learning from the ghosts of the Civil War / Randall Kenan -- Mourning / Edwidge Danticat -- Why the rebellion had to begin here / Su Hwang -- On the complex flavors of Black joy / Michael Kleber-Digger -- Letter from fault lines of Midwestern racism / Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- I cannot stop: a response to the murder of George Floyd / Layli Long Soldier -- Be safe out there (and other American delusions, rhetorical and otherwise) / Sofian Merabet -- I hated that I had to see your face through plexiglass / Nyle Fort -- Let these protests bring light to America / Daniel Peňa -- Letters from a Seattle protest / Claudia Castro Luna -- Finding justice in the streets / Pitchaya Sudbanthad -- A riotous antodyne / Indigo Moot -- A letter to Black America / Tracy K. Smith -- Where is Black life lived? / Joshua Bennett -- On the endless mourning of the present / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- On protests, laughter, and finding breath / Ali Black -- Letters to Juneteeth / Gregory Pardlo -- Letter from Burlington / Major Jackson -- Black prayer / James Noél -- Sense / Dawn Lundy Martin -- Black motherhood in sleepless times / Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili -- Letter to a mother who survived and thrived / Cynthia Tucker -- "Maybe" (letter to a daughter who will wear two masks) Jasmon Drain -- This'll hurt me more / Camille T. Dungy -- Have I ever told you all the courts I've loved / Ross Gay -- Letter from exile: finding home in a pandemic / Samiya Bashir -- A generational uprising / Héctor Tobar -- When the shadow is looming / Oscar Villalon -- From plagues to protest to wildfires / Manuel Muňoz -- Postcards from quarantined paradise / Craig Santos Perez -- Three liberties: past, present, yet to come / Julia Alvarez -- Letter to John Robert Lewis / Nikky Finney -- Kamala Harris, mass incarceration, and me -- Refuse fascism, at the ballet box and in the street / Lilly Wachowski -- Why I'm getting out of the boiler room this election / Monica Youn -- Voting Trump out is not enough / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -- The fall of Trump: on presidents, dictators, and life after a regime / Francisco Goldman -- Thunder song / Sasha LaPointe -- On motherhood and ancestral resistance / Kirsten West Savali

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