Marrow (eBook)

Poems

darlene anita scott (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
88 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-8364-0 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Grape is the sweetest betrayal.There is no removing the stainof it say moms everywhere &even if kids choose it last,they choose it, as loyalto its sugar as any."e;When authorities converged on the Guyanese settlement of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Projectfounded by James "e;Jim"e; Jones and popularly known as Jonestownon November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members were found dead, the result of murder-suicide. The massacre was the largest mass loss of American lives before September 11, 2001. Although the events at Jonestown inspired a common idiom in "e;Don't drink the Kool-Aid,"e; the personal histories of those who were lost have been treated as a footnote to the tragedylittle has been written about those individuals and their lived experiences. In this profound and provocative poetry collection, darlene anita scott foregrounds that which has been disremembered and honors the people who perished at Jonestown. She amplifies the voices of the children, teenagers, and adults whose hopes, dreams, and lives were just as hopeful and mundane as any others yet have been overlooked and overshadowed by the circumstances of their untimely loss. The distinct, haunting, and unforgettable poems in Marrow cut to the bone while also acknowledging and giving tribute to the people who were lost on that fateful day.

Autor

darlene anita scott is coeditor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era. Her poetry appeared most recently in Green Mountains Review, Pen + Brush, and Simple Machines, and her works have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Inhalt

SHELBY COUNTY ALABAMA
THE INVITATION
ROSTRUM
BOOKISH GIRL SWEEPS THE SANCTUARY
THE BLACK BOOK
A REVOLUTIONARY LOVE STORY
WATER
WILD CHILD
JUBILEE
THE PEOPLES TEMPLE AGRICULTURAL PROJECT
WISHING TREE
FOR YONDER
COMPOSTING
MAKING SOAP
DISAPPEARANCE
THE RULES
HOW TODAY WILL LOOK WHEN IT'S HISTORY
I LEARN TO LOVE THE BODY SHE LOVES
A TREE GETS IN THE WAY
THE TWENTY-FIFTH
CHRISTINE
BUCKET BRIGADE
HARVESTING
HOW SLEEP FINDS US
SOMETIMES MOLASSES
GOVERNMENT NAME
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT IN OUR COTTAGE
WHEN SHANDA SAID NO
THE SCENT OF HER GROOMING
IN DEFENSE OF DEVOTION
SPIT SHINE
ALGEBRA
MAKESHIFT DADDY
FOR JUST PENNIES A GLASS
[REDACTED] EARNS HIS WINGS
IMAGINE, FIRST, A GIRL
AS FOR DANCING
AFTER THE GAME
LOOKING THE CAMERA IN THE EYE
WARREN FETUS
HOUSE ON STILTS
A MEDIC MISTAKES ME FOR DEAD
SEPIA
AFTER AN NBC INTERVIEW I MISSED YOU MORE
MARROW
—OIL DRUM
NOTES
ACKOWLEDGEMENTS

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2022
• Reihe/Serie: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
• Reihe/Serie: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Civil Rights • community unity church • Cult • Disciples of Christ • doomsdayer • foster care • Guyana • guyanese jungle • historical poetry • Jonestown Massacre • narrative poetry • Paranoia • Poison • Post-civil rights era • religious extremism • venezuala • wings of deliverance
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-8364-2 / 0813183642
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-8364-0 / 9780813183640