{"product_id":"faster-than-light-new-and-selected-poems-1996-2011-9780807147344","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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807147344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Marilyn Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644072620188,"sku":"9780807147344","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bfc85d10-b807-471c-866b-6b3f431da1ef.jpg?v=1603857852","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/faster-than-light-new-and-selected-poems-1996-2011-9780807147344","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}