- Taschenbuch: 54 Seiten
- Verlag: Louisiana St Univ (Dezember 1990)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0807116416
- ISBN-13: 978-0807116418
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,7 x 14 x 0,6 cm
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YA-- A slim yet compelling collection of poetry that celebrates several generations of a Southern black family with rich and vivid portraits. Great-Uncle Rufus was born a slave, conceived by rape, but raised by his mother with enough love and faith to imbue courage and pride in his own five children. Aunt Geneva dared to love a white man well into her eighties. Waniek's father, an Air Force navigator, and her "uncles," the famed Tuskegee Airmen, inspired the poet to look to the sky and ask ". . . how shall I live and work to match your goodness?" This is a worthy addition to any poetry collection, but it's of particular importance with the recent interest in the airmen and the contribution of blacks in the U. S. military. An excellent work for curriculum use in integrating history and literature.
- Jackie Gropman, Richard Byrd Library, Springfield, VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Jackie Gropman, Richard Byrd Library, Springfield, VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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A collection of poems celebrating several generations of a Southern Black family which includes such members as Great-Uncle Rufus who was born a blave, Aunt Geneva who loved a white man, and the author's father who was an Air Force navigator and part of the famed Tuskagee Airmen.
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one of the best volumes of contemporary poetry
16. Mai 2002
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There is no doubt in my mind that Marilyn Nelson's poetry will be remembered for generations to come, and this collection, _The Homeplace_ (which was a finalist for the National Book Award), is the primary reason why. Nelson's poetry is good by any standards, but _The Homeplace_ stands head and shoulders above her work, which says quite a bit. I've read her new and selected poems. They were very good. The only complaint is that they weren't divided by volumes, so it wasn't until i picked up _The Homeplace_ and read it that I realized just how good the poems in this volume are. Because _The Homeplace_ isn't a collection of short poems, rather it is one long narrative poem. It's divided into two sections. Section I tells the story of her mother's side of the family, going back five generations to her great-great grandmother, Diverne. The story of this family goes through slavery, the turn of the century, wars, and up to the point where her mother and father meet. It's a heroic and touching story. Section II is the story of her father's time as WWII as a Tuskegee Airman. _The Homeplace_ contains everything good about poetry, and everything that poetry should be: story, form, meaning, love, and a wonderful use of language. This isn't a book you should pass over. It should be read--slowly and again and again.
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A Story in Poems
19. April 2002
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In The Homeplace, Marilyn Nelson's third book, the author writes about members of her family. In the first part, poems describe the lives of her maternal ancestors going back five generations. The second part focuses on her father and his colleagues, the first black members of the Air Force. Though individual poems are capable of standing alone, the collection chronicles the history of American race relations, from Diverne, a slave, to Pomp, who lives with the stigma of his mixed blood immediately following the Civil War, to the Tuskegee Airmen, who must repeatedly handle skepticism about their abilities. Individual poems describe anecdotes, little moments in these lives, sometimes told in the first person and sometimes in third. The general sense creates a quilt of such moments, with individual poems contributing to the whole.
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