Equilibrium (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781495157646)

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. EQUILIBRIUM searches for that point where there is a balance, even as the poems display a consciousness and self-awareness that belie that balance. The poems negotiate the colossal movement of hearts figuring and being figured by history. This is a voice that knows the intelligence of passion, that moves through and inside the questioning of who we are in the structures of things we give the power to name us until a song sends us out to question the territory. The poet moves with the exactness of math or physics, with the fearful knowledge of careful imbalances that would have us believe in equilibrium, and with the assuredness of art that knows all is change, that the semblance of order is creation, something we are given the gift of imitating in some small way. The poems in this collection summon the largeness, the volume of a voice that disembodies itself in order to search for the love that made it whole. --Afaa Michael Weaver

Author: Tiana Clark
ISBN-10: 1495157644
ISBN-13: 9781495157646
Publisher: Bull City Press
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2016
Pages: 53
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30d