When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1324050934
ISBN13:9781324050933
Release Date:June 2023
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:144 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"
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