{"product_id":"faster-than-light-marilyn-nelson-9780807147337","title":"Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eConjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities.\u003cbr\u003ePoems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857 for the creation of Central Park. \"Bivouac in a Storm\" tells the story of a group of young soldiers, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, as they trained near Biloxi, Mississippi, \"marching in summer heat \/ thick as blackstrap molasses, under trees \/ haunted by whippings.\" Later pieces range from the poet's travels in Africa, Europe, and Polynesia, to poems written in collaboration with Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, a former Benedictine monk and the subject of Nelson's playful fictional fantasy sequence, \"Adventure-Monk!\" Both personal and historical, these poems remain grounded in everyday details but reach toward spiritual and moral truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marilyn Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807147338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807147337\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Marilyn Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926294003967,"sku":"9780807147337","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_aad7fe36-45e4-43cd-ba85-0f0662a97c85.jpg?v=1681082269","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/faster-than-light-marilyn-nelson-9780807147337","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}