America, A Love Story
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-0215-5 (ISBN)
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America, A Love Story is Camille T. Dungy's powerful testament to living and loving as a Black woman and mother in today's America, and her first book of poetry in almost a decade. Piercingly honest and deeply compassionate, this poetry moves through the mounting griefs of contemporary American life with unwavering clarity. The book is part indictment, part celebration—full of gratitude, fear, resistance, and hope. Dungy explores intimacy, parenting, racism, history, and the natural world with clarity and depth. Some poems reflect on the past; others respond to the work of contemporary Black artists. Many are formally playful, including a series of 700-character poems inspired by the 700 hours of sleep a mother loses in her child's first year. Gorgeous, bright, and bold, these poems speak from the edges—between mother and child, body and earth, self and country. They hold tension and tenderness in equal measure, creating a space for love amidst uncertainty.
[sample poem]
To enter our own empty house
She was seven when we stopped
using keys. One less thing to lose.
Now we punch a combination.
Easy, but hopefully not so easy
a stranger could guess. This is where
I should stop. They are bound
to be angry, my beloveds. I am
giving away all our secrets again.
Vulnerability is the root of much fury.
=
I was small. A stone in the yard
hid a metal case with a lid
that slid like a matchbox top
to reveal our key. Lifting that rock
I thought of bashing someone's head.
I thought of harm lurking, dressed
in the body of some stranger.
=
Sometimes, I wrestle my daughter.
I make her tiny body work itself
out from under the weight I make
of my own. In this way I try
to teach her how it feels to break free.
This'll hurt me more
The average mother loses 700 hours of sleep in the first year of her child's life; or, what that first year taught me about America
in the hallway there used to be a hatch<
this beginning may have always meant this end
On "Brevity"
Catalog
Jamestown 2019
Show Us What You're Made Of
Prelapsarian
New Address
To enter our own empty house
Expectant; or, What the Transition Phase of Labor Confirmed about Being a Black Woman in America
Only Child
as if an etymology my love
Elegy beginning in the shade of Aunt Mary's mulberry tree
New Developments
Poem revised in a 12th floor hotel room after noticing a man in the building across the street was holding binoculars
True Story
Expectant; or knowing American women are more likely to die in childbirth than women in any other developed country and black women make up fifty percent of those deaths
When I die, I hope they talk about me
Advice
This weekend some white lady is running a tag sale
at John Hope Franklin's house
The Garden
As if a fairytale my love
High Water Mark
Visitation
Sanctuary
Golden Age
The Ticket
litany
The average mother now spends twice as many hours on childcare than did her counterpart in 1965, and she also spends three times as many hours working outside the home; or, How to sing a song of six pence when you're really feeling wry
Lesson
This is good
Garden Style
Remembering a honeymoon hike near Drakes Bay, California, while I cook our dinner at the feet of Colorado's Front Range
Change of Life
Late Summer Then Blink It's Fall
Fame • One Night in 1888, as the French steamboat Abd-el-Kader powered from Marseilles to Algiers, news reports proclaim the sky became quite black with swallows
Spring Creek Trail
Let Me
Acknowledgments and Notes
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8195-0215-4 / 0819502154 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8195-0215-5 / 9780819502155 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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