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The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
by Marilyn Nelson

Publication Date: May 01, 1997
List Price: $21.95
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780807121757
Imprint: LSU Press
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Parent Company: Louisiana State University

Paperback 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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