Running the Dusk (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845231552)

Christian Campbell takes us to dusk, what the French call l'heure entre chien et loup, the hour between dog and wolf, to explore ambiguity and intersection, danger and desire, loss and possibility. These poems of wild imagination shift shape and shift generation, remapping Caribbean, British and African American geographies: Oxford becomes Oxfraud; Shabba Ranks duets with C駸aire; Sidney Poitier is reconsidered in an exam question; market women hawk poetry beside knock-off Gucci bags; elegies for ancestors are also for land and sea. Here is dancing at the crossroads between reverence and irreverence. Dusk is memory, dusk is dream, dusk is a way to re-imagine the past. Running the Dusk won the 2010 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Poetry Prize for the Best First Book in the UK. It was also named a finalist for the Cave Canem Prize by Sonia Sanchez.

Author: Christian Campbell
ISBN-10: 1845231554
ISBN-13: 9781845231552
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2010
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.30d