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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Jordan, A. Van.     Subjects     African Americans -- Violence against -- Poetry.     Police brutality -- United States -- Poetry.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jordan, A. Van.       by title:      When I waked, I crie...         MARC Display

When I waked, I cried to dream again : poems / A. Van Jordan. by Jordan, A. Van. New York : W. W. Norton & Company. Inc., [2023] Subjects African Americans -- Violence against -- Poetry.   Police brutality -- United States -- Poetry. ISBN:  9781324050933 (hardcover) : 1324050934 (hardcover) Description:  121 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Edition:  First edition Requests:  0 Summary:  "In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays--Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of Othello--to mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black children, at the hands of police officers. What do these characters, and the ways they are defined by the white figures who surround them, have in common with Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, and other Black people killed in the twenty-first century? Balancing anger and grief with celebration, Jordan employs an elastic variety of poetic forms, including ekphrastic sestinas inspired by the photography of Malick Sidib, fictional dialogues, and his signature definition poems that break down the insidious power of words like "fair," "suspect," and "juvenile." He invents a new form of window poems, based on a characterization exercise, to see Shakespeare's Black characters in three dimensions, and finds contemporary parallels in the way these characters are othered, rendered at once undesirable and hypersexualized, a threat and a joke. At once a stunning inquiry into the roots of racist violence and a moving recognition of the joy of Black youth before the world takes hold, When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again expresses the preciousness and precarity of life." --Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 811.6 Jo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 811.6 Jordan Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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