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Lodestar

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Author: Nagueyalti Warren
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9789390202300
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Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2020
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Price: $15
 
 

These poems aptly show profoundly imaginative power. No doubt, the poet is an adept in the intimate and convincing analysis of emotions.

REVIEW

This collection of poems is both historical and contemporary. Divided into three sections: Past Tense, Present Tense, Future Tense, the poet recalls southern events. This section contains sonnets for historical black figures, a sestina for a grandmother who confronts bigotry. In the present there are poems about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Las Vegas massacre, the election of Barack Obama, but also poems to a beloved artist. Ending this section is a poem in the voice of George Floyd. The final poem, the only one in this section, is in the voice of a woman who holds the future as her palm. An easy read with poems as lucid as clear water. I love this book????. A. Dalton

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Nagueyalti Warren

 

Nagueyalti Warren, PhD., is Professor of Pedagogy Emerita in African American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.  She is author of three collections of poetry: Lodestar and Other Night Lights (1992); Margaret: circa 1834-1858 (2008), which won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award; and Braided Memory (2011), winner of the Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award. She is editor of Temba Tupu! (Walking Naked) The Africana Woman’s Poetic Self-Portrait (2008), and Critical Insights: Alice Walker (2013). Her poems have appeared in Essence Magazine, Cave Canem Anthology, The Ringing Ear, Obsession, 44 on 44 and elsewhere. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, Warren also is author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Grandfather of Black Studies (2012), and Alice Walker’s Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit (2019). She earned her undergraduate degree from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, a Master of Arts degree in English from Simmons College in Boston, a Master of Arts degree in Afro-American Studies from Boston University, MFA degree from Goddard College in Vermont, and a PhD from the University of Mississippi. 

 

 


 
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