A Fire in the Hills (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781636280820)

In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those revelations of sublimation of self gives way here to a material focus. The racial references are explicit as are the complexities of life lived as a Black man born in America in the mid-twentieth century. These are poems emanating from an attempt to follow Daoist philosophy for most of his life. Knowledge of other is in relation to knowledge of self, and self is an illusory continuum, a perspective wherein the poet embodies the transcendent arc of Malcolm X's life as credo.

Author: Afaa M. Weaver
ISBN-10: 163628082X
ISBN-13: 9781636280820
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2023
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2023 pg. 110