Brilliant, lyrical, and passionate, this collection from the acclaimed poet M. NourbeSe Philip is an extended jazz riff running along the themes of language, racism, colonialism, and exile. In this groundbreaking collection, Philip defiantly challenges and resoundingly overthrows the silencing of black women through appropriation of language, offering no less than superb poetry resonant with beauty and strength. She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks was originally published in 1989 and won the Casa de Las Americas ...
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Brilliant, lyrical, and passionate, this collection from the acclaimed poet M. NourbeSe Philip is an extended jazz riff running along the themes of language, racism, colonialism, and exile. In this groundbreaking collection, Philip defiantly challenges and resoundingly overthrows the silencing of black women through appropriation of language, offering no less than superb poetry resonant with beauty and strength. She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks was originally published in 1989 and won the Casa de Las Americas Prize. This new Wesleyan edition includes a foreword by Evie Shockley. An online reader's companion will be available at ...
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No Jacket. Middletown. 2015. October 2015. Wesleyan University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780819575678. Foreword by Evie Shockley. Wesleyan Poetry. 6 x 9. 112 pages. paperback. keywords: Caribbean Tobago Literature Poetry Women World Literature. DESCRIPTION-The groundbreaking seminal collection by the author of Zong! Brilliant, lyrical, and passionate, this collection from acclaimed poet M. NourbeSe Philip is an extended jazz riff on themes of language, racism, colonialism, and exile. Philip defiantly challenges and resoundingly overthrows the silencing of black women through appropriation of language, offering no less than superb poetry resonant with beauty and strength. Originally published in 1989, it won the Casa de Las Americas Prize. This new Wesleyan edition includes a foreword by Evie Shockley, and an online reader's companion will be available. Philip's tragic transport-as a curate of the impure word, the degeneration and regeneration of grammar-bears the black history of romance. No sojourn in contemporary poetry is more necessary or more beautiful than hers. -Fred Moten, author of The Feel Trio. inventory #41947.
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