Multitudes: Poems Selected & New - Hardcover

Weaver, Afaa M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 188933040X ISBN 13: 9781889330402

Publisher: Sarabande Books, 2000

Synopsis

A generous, retrospective edition of this African-American poet.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Multitudes: Poems Selected and New is the twenty-ninth title to be published by Sarabande Books, a nonprofit literary press headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Since the 1996 debut of the press, Sarabande Books titles have received positive review attention from nationally distinguished media including The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, American Book Review, Small Press, The Nation, and Library Journal.

From the Inside Flap:

“Afaa Micheal Weaver is a poet of angels and demons. His roots are wide and deep, going back to writers of mystical and devotional poetry like Traherne or the early Blake, and conjoined with, at times, the moods (though not the rhythms) of blues. I love the truth and purity in the lines of his poetry.”

—Alicia Ostriker “Fanon said: to speak is to assume a culture and to bear responsibility for a civilization. Afaa Micheal Weaver has done that in his poems. He speaks to us in tongues that are ‘cultured’ by timber and prayer, black and white galaxies. This poet has been to the ‘carnival in the city’ and returned with the knowledge that the country is alive because of his benediction. Amen. A woman. Amen.”

—Sonia Sanchez

About this edition

• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 188933040X
• ISBN 13: 9781889330402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160