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ISBN: 9781598536669

Series Statement: The library of America 333

Content: Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate resistance to slavery. This volume captures the power and beauty of this diverse tradition and its challenge to American poetry and culture. The volume also features biographies of each poet and notes that illuminate cultural references and allusions to historical events. -- adapted from jacket

Note: Introduction / by Kevin Young -- Bury me in a free land: 1770-1899 -- Lift every voice: 1900-1918 -- The dark tower: 1919-1936 -- Ballads of remembrance: 1936-1959 -- Ideas of ancestry: 1959-1975 -- Blue light sutras: 1976-1989 -- Praise songs for the day: 1990-2008 -- After the hurricane: 2009-2020 , ONE: BURY ME IN A FREE LAND 1770-1899. On imagination ; On Recollection ; On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 ; To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works ; To His Excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston / Jupiter Hammon -- [Bars Fight] / Lucy Terry -- A Mathematical Problem in Verse / Benjamin Banneker -- To Eliza ; The Slave's Complaint ; On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the Poet's freedom ; Division of an estate ; The Art of a Poet ; George Moses Horton, Myself / George Moses Horton -- An Appeal to Woman ; The Grave of the Slave / Sarah Louisa Forten -- Concatination [Selected Pottery Verses, 1834-1862] / David Drake -- The Natives of America ; Reflections / Ann Plato -- Armand Lanusse: Epigram ; Camille Thierry Ideas ; Pierre Dalcour: Verse Written in the Album of Mademoiselle _____ ; Victor-Ernest Rillieux: Love and Devotion/ Les Cenelles -- America ; To Cinque / James M. Whitfield -- Hope and Confidence / Charles L. Reason -- A Life-Day / George B. Vashon -- The Emigrant / Benjamin Clark -- Song for the First of August / James Madison Bell -- A June Song ; A Parting Hymn ; In the earnest path of duty / Charlotte Forten Grimḱe -- Toussaint L'Ouverture ; Self-Mastery / Henrietta Cordelia Ray -- from The Rape of Florida ; A Question / Albery A. Whitman -- The Slave Mother ; Bury Me in a Free Land ; Learning to Read ; A Double Standard ; Songs for the People / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper , TWO: LIFT EVERY VOICE 1900-1918. The House of Falling Leaves / William Stanley Braithwaite -- Driftwood / Olivia Ward Bush -- America ; Character or Color--Which? ; Late Mother / Carrie Williams Clifford -- Paul Laurence Dunbar / James D. Corrothers -- A Prayer ; And What Shall You Say? ; Supplication ; A Woman at Her Husband's Grave / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- Dr. Booker T Washington to the National Negro Business League / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. -- A Litany at Atlanta / W. E. B. Du Bois -- We Wear the Mask ; A Negro Love Song ; When Malindy Sings ; When de Co'n Pone's Hot ; An Ante-Bellum Sermon ; Sympathy ; A Death Song ; Compensation / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Violets ; I Sit and Sew ; The Proletariat Speaks / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- The Black Finger ; A Mona Lisa ; El Beso ; You ; Rosabel ; The Eyes of My Regret ; Trees ; Tenebris ; Grass Fingers ; To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké / Angelina Weld Grimké -- Wooing ; A Spade Is Just a Spade ; Here and Hereafter / Walter Everette Hawkins -- Retrospect / Josephine D. Heard -- When I Die ; The Lonely Mother ; Who Is That A-Walking in the Corn? ; from African Nights / Fenton Johnson -- Lift Every Voicce and Sing ; Sence You Went Away ; O Black and Unknown Bards ; My City ; Go Down Death / James Weldon Johnson -- from The Fledgling Poet and the Poetry Society / George R. Margetson -- Ode to the Sun / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- To a Little Colored Boy / Priscilla Jane Thompson -- The New Negro / Lucian B. Watkins , THREE: THE DARK TOWER 1919-1936. Japanese Hokku ; Negro Woman ; Effigy / Lewis Grandison Alexander -- Heritage ; Lines written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas ; Fantasy ; To a Dark Carl ; Dirge for a Free Spirit ; I Build America ; Epitaph / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- The Return ; A Black Man Talks of Reaping ; Southern Mansion ; The Day-breakers / Arna Bontemps -- Ma Rainey ; Old Lem ; Slim Greer ; Strange Legacies ; Southern Cop ; To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden ; Let Us Suppose / Sterling A. Brown -- Portraiture ; Black Baby ; Impressions from a Family Album ; Coveted Epitaph ; Denial ; Idle Wonder / Anita Scott Coleman -- Longings ; Goal ; Farewell ; Having Had You ; Four Poems--After the Japanese ; For a New Mother ; I Look at Death / Mae V. Cowdery -- Yet Do I Marvel ; Incident ; Tableau ; Saturday's Child ; Heritage ; from Epitaphs ; From the Dark Tower ; Uncle Jim ; Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song / Countee Cullen -- , No Images ; Nineteen-twenty-nine ; My Lord, What a Morning ; Down-Home Boy ; Carry Me Back / Waring Cuney -- The Mask ; Solace / Clarissa Scott Delany -- Dead Fires ; La Vie C'est la vie ; Oblivion / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- My Last Name / Nicolas Guillen -- Notes Found Near a Suicide / Frank Horne -- The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; The Weary Blues ; Mother to son ; Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret ; Beale Street Love ; Cross ; Personal ; Midwinter Blues ; Bound No'th Blues ; Dream Variations ; I, Too ; Song for a Dark Girl ; Let America be America Again ; from Montage of a Dream Deferred ; Madam and the Rent Man ; from Ask Your Mama / Langston Hughes -- The Singer ; The Maestro / Eva A. Jessye -- The Heart of a Woman ; Cosmopolite ; Black Woman ; Old Black Men ; Common Dust ; I Want to Die While You Love Me ; Interracial / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Poem ; Invocation / Helene Johnson -- Jamaica Market / Agnes Maxwell-Hall -- , Christmas in de Air ; The Harlem Dancer ; Harlem Shadows ; If We Must Die ; On Broadway ; The Tropics in New York ; The Lynching ; America ; My Mother ; "The white man is a tiger at my throat" / Claude McKay -- Man and Maid / Myra Estelle Morris -- Shadow / Richard Bruce Nugent -- Requiem ; This Is My Vow / Lucia Mae Pitts -- October Prayer ; Flag Salute / Esther Popel -- Black and Blue ; The Tree of Hope / Andy Razaf -- At the Carnival ; White Things ; Sybil Warns Her Sister / Anne Spencer -- Five Vignettes ; Her Lips Are Copper Wire ; from Cane ; from Essentials ; Be with Me / Jean Toomer , FOUR: BALLADS OF REMEMBRANCE 1936-1959. To Satch (American Gothic) ; Nat Turner or Let Him Come ; If the Stars Should Fall / Samuel Allen -- Narrative ; Night and a Distant Church ; It's Here in The ; Spyrytual / Russell Atkins -- from A Street in Bronzeville ; Beverly Hills, Chicago ; The Bean Eater ; We Real Cool ; A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Missippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon ; The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till ; The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock ; The Lovers of the Poor ; Malcolm X ; The Second Sermon on the Warpland ; Paul Robeson ; The Life of Lincoln West ; The Boy Died in My Alley ; Infirm ; I Am a Black ; An Old Black Woman, Homeless, and Indistinct / Gwendolyn Brooks -- To Julia de Burgos ; Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress ; Poem of the Unborn Child ; Farewell in Welfare Island ; The Sun in Welfare Island / Julia de Burgos -- The Small Bells of Benin ; Etta Moten's Attic / Margaret Danner -- , from Ebony Under Granite ; Mojo Mike's Beer Garden ; Four Glimpses of Night / Frank Marshall Davis -- Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One ; The Morning Duke Ellington Praised the Lord and Six Little Black Davids Tapped Danced Unto / Owen Dodson -- Those Winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass ; Middle Passage ; Runagate Runagate ; A Letter from Phillis Wheatley ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; [American Journal] / Robert Hayden -- The Truth ; Jazz Is My Religionj ; The Nice Colored Man / Ted Joans -- Hawk Lawler: Chorus ; I, Too, Know What I Am Not ; Would You Wear My Eyes? ; War Memoir ; Walking Parker Home ; Crootey Songo ; Heavy Water Blues ; Blues for Hal Waters ; Oregon / Bob Kaufman -- from Dark Testament ; Prophecy / Pauli Murray -- A Private Letter to Brazil ; Review from Staten Island ; Man White, Brown Girl and All That Jazz / Gloria C. Oden -- Young Poet / Myron O'Higgins -- Harlem Dawn ; A Definition ; Jean-Jaques / Oliver Pitcher -- , Booker T. and W.E.B. ; An Answer to Lerone Bennett's Questionnaire On a Name for Black Americans ; A Poet Is Not a Jukebox / Dudley Randall -- Ballad of American Mores ; Face of Poverty / Lucy E. Smith -- Dark Symphony ; from Harlem Gallery, Book I: The Curator / Melvin B. Tolson -- For My People ; Molly Means ; October Journey / Margaret Walker -- Between the World and Me ; Selected Haiku / Richard Wright , FIVE: IDEAS OF ANCESTRY 1959-1975. Still I Rise ; Phenomenal Woman / Maya Angelou -- Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today ; Notes for a Speech ; The Liar ; Short Speech to My Friends ; Three Modes of History and Culture ; SOS ; Black Art ; Why's 12 / Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) -- King: April 4, 1968 / Gerald Barrax -- Blues ; All God's Chillun ; The White River ; Sam Lord / Kamau Brathwaite -- "in the inner city" ; miss rosie ; good times ; admonitions ; "being property once myself" ; the lost baby poem ; from some jesus ; cutting greens ; homage to my hips ; "the light that came to lucille clifton" ; jasper texas 1998 ; why some people be mad at me sometimes ; "i am accused of tending to the past" ; Jump Rope Rhymes (transcribed) ; study the masters ; to my last period ; wishes for sons ; "surely i am able to write poems" ; "won't you celebrate with me" / Lucille Clifton -- , How Long Has Trane Been Gone ; Orisha ; Rape ; Jazz Fan Looks Back / Jayne Cortez -- Son of Msippi ; Black Star Line ; Outer Space Blues / Henry Dumas -- I Am a Black Woman / Mari Evans -- I Would Be for You Rain / Sarah Webster Fabio -- High on the Hog / Julia Fields -- Black Power ; Nikki-Rosa ; For Saundra ; Ego Tripping ; A Poem for Carol ; Legacies / Nikki Giovanni -- American History ; Dear John, Dear Coltrane ; Nightmare Begins Responsibility ; Reuben, Reuben ; Tongue-Tied in Black and White ; Last Affair: Bessie's Blues Song ; The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass / Michael S. Harper -- Do Nothing till You Hear from Me ; A Coltrane Memorial / David Henderson -- Medicine Man / Calvin Hernton -- What Would I Do White? ; These Poems ; I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies ; Poem about My Rights ; Poem for Haruko / June Jordan -- Blues for Some Literary Friends & Myself ; For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- , A Poem for Myself ; The Idea of Ancestry ; The Bones of My Father ; Haiku ; For Freckle-Faced Gerald ; The Violent Space ; Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane ; For Eric Dolphy ; Feeling Fucked Up / Etheridge Knight -- On Being Head of the English Department / PInkie Gordon Lane -- Coal ; Revolution Is One Form of Social Change ; A Litany for Survival ; Power ; Lunar Eclipse ; Inheritance--His / Audre Lorde -- But He Was Cool ; Don't Cry, Scream / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) -- Swallow the Lake ; Hair / Clarence Major -- Malcolm X--An Autobiography ; Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat / Larry Neal -- 26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man / Raymond R. Patterson -- Howlin Wolf ; Big Maybelle / Sterling D. Plumpp ; From Where the Blues? ; "WE NEED" ; " ; Metagnomy / N. H. Pritchard -- Beware: Do Not Read This Poem ; Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Tenderloin ; The Reactionary Poet / Ishmael Reed -- , sonnet ; poll ; the poor houses ; othello jones dresses for dinner ; American Jazz Quartet / Ed Roberson -- how i got ovah / Carolyn Rodgers -- for our lady ; A Poem for My Father ; A poem for my brother ; from Philadelphia: Spring, 1985 ; haiku (for Osage ave and Doorknop) ; haiku (for mungu and morani and the children of soweto) ; two haiku (for Clarence H. Watson and The Count) ; tanka (for papa Joe Jones who used to toss me up to the sky) ; haiku (for domestic workers in the african diaspora) ; haiku ("man. you write me so") ; tanka ("like dark old men the") ; haiku ("like ermine when i") ; haiku ("i want to make you") ; blues ; Song No. 2 / Sonia Sanchez -- Whitey on the Moon ; The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ; Home Is Where the Hatred Is / Gil Scott-Heron -- After Vallejo / A. B. Spellman -- Inauguration ; Song / Lorenzo Thomas -- One for Charlie Mingus ; Poem for My Father ; After Hearing a Radio Announcement: A Comment on Some Conditions / Quincy Troupe -- , A Far Cry from Africa ; Codicil ; Blues ; from The Schooner Flight ; Sea Canes ; Volcano ; Easter ; from Omeros: Chapter VIII / Derek Walcott -- Women / Alice Walker -- blues for franks wooten ; from Maumau American Cantos: Canto 4 / Tom Weatherly -- How Stars Start ; Dance of the Infidels ; Boogie with O.O. Gabugah ; The Old O.O. Blues ; A Poem for Players / Al Young , SIX: BLUE LIGHT SUTRAS 1976-1989. Twenty-Year Marriage ; I Can't Get Started ; Two Brothers ; The Good Shepherd: Atlanta, 1981 / AI -- from Haiti / Will Alexander -- Titta / George Barlow -- Soul Make a Path Through Shouting ; Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson / Cyrus Cassells -- from Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra / Barbara Chase-Riboud -- What It Means to Be Dark ; Mastectomy ; from American Sonnets / Wanda Coleman -- Harriet in the Promised Land / Sam Cornish -- Blackbottom ; The Weakness ; On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses ; Black Boys Play the Classics / Toi Derricotte -- Leaving Eden ; from The Arcanum Poems ; Father / Ralph Dickey -- Tour Guide: La Maison des Esclaves ; Turning Forty in the 90's ; Wednesday Mourning ; Heartbeats / Melvin Dixon -- , The House Slave ; David Walker (1785-1830) ; Adolescence--II ; Banneker ; from Thomas and Beulah ; Canary ; The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe ; Hartie McDaniel Arrives at the Cocoanut Grove ; from Sonata Mulattica / Rita Dove -- The Dance ; The Supremes ; from Brutal Imagination Cornelius Eady -- Brown Girl Levitation, 1962-1989 ; Concerto no. 7: Condoleezza [working out] at the Watergate Nikky Finney -- Some Pieces ; Hand Me Down Blues ; Dark Mirror / Calvin Forbes -- This Bridge Across ; Time with Stevie Wonder in It ; Chris Gilbert: An Improvisation / Christopher Gilbert -- Vernacular Examples ; Palaver ; Sotto Voce / C. S. Giscombe -- For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) ; For Claude McKay / Lorna Goodison -- Goldsboro Narrative #4: My father's Viet Nam tour near over ; Goldsboro Narrative #28 ; Goldsboro Narrative #33 ; Goldsboro Narrative #7 ; Annual Visit of the Quiet, Unmarried Son / Forrest Hamer -- , Heavy Corners ; Civil Servant ; For My Own Protection / Essex Hemphill -- "C"ing in Colors: Blue / Safiya Henderson-Holmes -- Surplus Future Imperfect ; Woman, with wings ; Should you find me / Erica Hunt -- Deep Song / Gayl Jones -- i done got so thirsty that my mouth waters at the thought of rain / Patricia Spears Jones -- Fragments from the Diary of Amelie Patiné, Quadroon, Mistress of Monsieur Jacques R _____ / Sybil Kein -- from The Women of Plums / Dolores Kendrick -- Annabelle ; More Girl Than Boy ; Letter to Bob Kaufman ; Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel ; February in Sydney ; from Dien Cai Dau ; Venus's-flytraps ; My Father's Love Letters ; Anodyne ; Ode to the Maggot / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Falso Brilhante ; Song of the Andoumboulou: 31 / Nathaniel Mackey -- Gra'ma ; Try to Understand Papa ; Throwing Stones at the All White Pool ; Fade to Black / Colleen J. McElroy -- , Life in a Sterile Environment: A Case Study ; The Day before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959 ; A Reconsideration of the Blackbird ; An Anointing ; Poem for My Mothers and Other Makers of Asafetida ; The Lynching / Thylias Moss -- from Muse & Drudge ; from Sleeping with the Dictionary / Harryette Mullen -- A Strange Beautiful Woman ; Sleepless Nights ; Lonely Eagles ; Star-Fix / Marilyn Nelson -- How I Became the Blues / Brenda Marie Osbey -- The Broken English Dream / Pedro Pietri -- The Black Back-Ups / Kate Rushin -- All the Way Home ; from Dreamer / Primus St. John -- Trying for Fire / Tim Seibles -- from for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- Building Nicole's Mama ; Don't Drink the Water / Patricia Smith -- from Free! / Sekou Sundiata -- Inside the Blues Whale ; Scrapple ; Washing the car with My Father ; John Henry Sleeping in High Grass / Afaa Michael Weaver -- from Letters to a New England Negro / Sherley Anne Williams , SEVEN: PRAISE SONGS FOR THE DAY 1990-2008. Blue ; The New Religion / Chris Abani -- The Venus Hottentot ; Nineteen ; Ars Poetica #28: African Leave-Taking Disorder ; Ars Poetica #100: I Believe ; Praise Song for the Day / Elizabeth Alexander -- loose strife ; Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire / Quan Barry -- Verbal Mugging / Paul Beatty -- Prayer of the Backhanded ; Bullet Points ; 'N'em ; Another Elegy ; The Tradition / Jericho Brown -- A Balance of Blues & Angels / Darrell Burton -- nap-i-ness / Kyle Dargan -- Natural ; Black Funk / Kwame Dawes -- Wednesday Poem / Joel Dias-Porter -- Frequently Asked Questions #10 / Camille Dungy -- View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding ; Salt / Vievee Francis -- burial ; A Small Needful Fact / Ross Gay -- Santa Ana of Grocery Carts ; Teeth ; Ode to the Little "r" / Aracelis Girmay -- Seeing the Body / Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- , Black Mary Integrates the School House / Duriel E. Harris -- Touch ; Satchmo Returns to New Orleans ; The Golden Shovel ; Carp Poem / Terrance Hayes -- How to Listen ; Euphoria ; Ferguson / Major Jackson -- The Gospel of Barbecue / Honorée Fannone Jeffers -- Charity on Blind Tom ; General Bethune on Blind Tom ; Blind Boone's Vision ; Minnehaha / Tyehimba Jess -- Jesse Owens, 1963 ; Rope / A. Van Jordan -- Thirty Lines About the Fro ; My Father's Kites / Allison Joseph -- Drop it Like It's Hottento Venus / Douglas Kearney -- Hostage / Daniell Legros Georges -- Plantation ; from Voyage of the Sable Venus ; "Lucy Terry Prince Prepares for Her Marriage" / Robin Coste Lewis -- Ode to the Diasporican / Mariposa -- from Good Stock Strange Blood / Dawn Lundy Martin -- from The Big Smoke ; Robot Music / Adrian Matejka -- What the Oracle Said / Shara mcCallum -- The Keepin' It Real Awards / Tony Medina -- Blackout 1977 / Tracie Morris -- , gayl jones ; cecil taylor ; johnny cash ; I ran from it but was still in it / Fred Moten -- On Confessionalism / John Murillo -- Written by Himself ; Raisin / Gregory Pardlo -- Bembe-Faced ; Arroz con Son y Clave / Willie Perdomo -- Blue ; Cotillion ; A Great Noise ; Speak Low / Carl Phillips -- I want to not have to write another word about who cops keep killing / Khadijah Queen -- from Citizen: An American Lyric / Claudia Rankine -- The Difficult Music ; The Lucky One ; Hesitation Theory ; My Mother Was No White Dove / Reginald Shepherd -- from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass ; statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways) ; ode to my blacknes / Evie Shockley -- Don't You Wonder, Sometimes? ; The Universe Is a House Party ; Declaration / Tracy K. Smith -- Offering ; Snow / Sharan Strange -- Ode to Gentrification / Samantha Thornhill -- , Flounder ; Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ; Graveyard Blues ; Pilgrimage ; Miscegenation ; Incident / Natasha Trethewey -- Strip ; RR Lyrae: Matter / Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon -- Wind Talker ; Work Ethic / Frank X. Walker -- Dissidence ; Gwendolyn Brooks / Anthony Walton -- "The reeds shook. A wide flat ass cradled in leather pants. This" / Simone White -- Amethyst Rocks / Saul Williams -- Money Road / Kevin Young , EIGHT: AFTER THE HURRICANE 2009-2020. How Can Black People Write about Flowers at a Time Like This / Hanif Abdurraqib -- La Negra Takes Medusa to the Hair Salon / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Cento Between the Ending and the End / Cameron Awkward-Rich -- America Will Be / Joshua Bennett -- A Postmodern Two-Step / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- upon viewing the death of basquiat / Mahogany L. Browne -- Massa's House / Dominique Christina -- Nashville / Tiana Clark -- Dear _____, / DeLana R. A. Dameron -- My First Black Nature Poem(TM) / LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs -- I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store / Eve L. Ewing -- Aunt Flo and Uncle Phineas / Sean Hill -- (Afterward) One Corner More / Notes on a Letter to the Singer Abbey Lincoln from Her Lover, Abraham Lincoln / Harmony Holiday -- After the Hurricane / Ishion Hutchinson -- Kansas / Gary Jackson -- Kudzu / Saeed Jones -- The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings / Donika Kelly -- One Country / Rickey Laurentiis -- Still When I Picture It the Face of God Is a White Man's Face / Shane McCrae -- Closer / Anis Mojgani -- #sayhername / Aja Monet -- The President's Wife / Morgan Parker -- Violins / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- History / Camille Rankine -- Black Can Sleep / Justin Phillip Reed -- Children Listen / Roger Reeves -- Why Is We Americans / Alison C. Rollins -- Object Permanence / Nicole Sealey -- Gnawa Boy, Marrakesh, 1968 / Charif Shanahan -- Fisherman's Daughter / Safiya Sinclair -- dinosaurs in the hood / Danez Smith -- Your National Anthem / Clint Smith -- Prayer / Phillip B. Williams -- Ode to Herb Kent / Jamila Woods

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: USA ; Schwarze ; Lyrik ; Anthologie

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Format: 218 S.

Series Statement: Compar(a)ison 2009,1/2

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Schauerliteratur ; Gothic novel ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author information: Camilletti, Fabio 1977-

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Format: 218 S.

Series Statement: Compar(a)ison 2009,1/2

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Schauerroman ; Geschichte ; Schauerliteratur ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 1 online resource (167 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781785277740 , 9781785277733

Content: This book looks at contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach. With a focus on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic, the study invokes its literary as well as filmic forebears by exploring how these styles informed strands of the modern filmic Gothic: the ghost narrative, folk horror, the vampire movie, cosmic horror and, finally, the zombie film. In recent years, the concept of transnationalism has 'trans'-cended its original boundaries, perhaps excessively in the minds of some. Originally defined in the wake of the rise of globalisation in the 1990s, as a way to study cinema beyond national boundaries, where the look and the story of a film reflected the input of more than one nation, or region, or culture. It was considered too confining to study national cinemas in an age of internationalization, witnessing the fusions of cultures, and post-colonialism, exile and diasporas. The concept allows us to appreciate the broader range of forces from a wider international perspective while at the same time also engaging with concepts of nationalism, identity and an acknowledgement of cinema itself.

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Content: " Leila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American gothic, analysing the ways it relates to race in America in the twenty-first century. Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly: The Black American Gothic explores American culture's inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning. If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is romanticized melancholy, what does that look and sound like in Black America?"

Content: Biographisches: "Leila Taylor is a former goth kid and current Creative Director at Brooklyn Public Library. She's given talks at the International Gothic Association and the Morbid Anatomy Museum, has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and an MA in Liberal Studies from The New School of Social Research. This is her first book." Rezension(2): " Hanif Abdurraqib, author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest and They Can't Kill Us Until they Kill Us:I am struck by the depth of Leila Taylor's vision. The generosity shown in the way a history (and present) is illuminated. This book does so much beautiful work to widen the expectations and understandings of blackness, and I am immensely thankful for it." Rezension(3): " Colin Dickey, author ofGhostland: A powerful and deeply personal exploration of what it means to be an outsider within an outsider culture. Between the black aesthetic of goth culture and the Blackness of America, Leila Taylor navigates seamlessly between cultural critique, personal history, and a history of America's troubled past in writing that is incessant, curious, and generous, and a voice that is at turns both searing and vulnerable. Powerful and strange, uncanny and unforgettable. " Rezension(4): "Baratunde Thurston:Takes us on a path that connects the Middle Ages, Edgar Allen Poe, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Afropunk, Prince, Black Lives Matter, and Hot Topic. It's an incredible journey... " Rezension(5): " Irenosen Okojie:Fascinating. A revelatory exploration of blackness, goth culture and the ramifications of inherited trauma." Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 13, 2019 What does it mean to be an African American who loves all things dark? And how does that fit into the ethos of America? These questions are posed in this uneven debut from Taylor (creative director, Brooklyn Public Library). A self-proclaimed Afro-Goth, the author explores why many black people relate to gothic culture. For some, it's the music of bands such as Siouxsie and the Banshees or a preference for dressing in all black. However, Taylor goes beyond dress and music to explore how an African American Goth bucks the stereotypes perpetrated by a dominant (white) culture and, by turns, embraces the dark history of the United States. Taylor is asking what is more gothic than the violent history of a country built on physical and psychological slavery. Often, the author references films and books as examples of racial violence and bigotry. But these references, while interesting to pop culture fan, do not add much to the narrative as a whole. Indeed, this is an example of a compelling argument but with too many examples and not enough of the author's personality. VERDICT Overall, a rare glimpse into American gothic from an African American perspective.--Leah Huey, Dekalb P.L., IL Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "

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Content: Part 1. Genealogies of the Ghost. Chapter 1. Ghosts: Of Ourselves or, Drifting with Hardy, Heidegger, James, and Woolf / Julian Wolfreys ; Chapter 2. Beckett's Ghost Light / Martin Harries ; Chapter 3. Uncanny Marxism: Or, Do Androids Dream of Electric Lenin? / Peter Hitchcock ; Chapter 4. Where Are the Dead? A Genealogy of Mediumship in Victoria Glendinning's Electricity / Justin Sausman ; Chapter 5. The Skeptical Ghost: Alejandro Amenábar's The Others and the Return of the Dead / Colin Davis -- Part 2. Spectral Politics of the Contemporary. Chapter 6. National Hauntings: Specters of Socialism in Shree 420 and Deewar / Caroline Herbert ; Chapter 7. Shadow of the Colossus: The Spectral Lives of 9/11 / Georgina Banita ; Chapter 8. Everyday Ghosts and the Ghostly Everyday in Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri, and Achille Mbembe / Esther Peeren ; Chapter 9. The Gentle Irruption of the Hereafter in This Life: Jean Echenoz's Au piano and Robin Campillo's Les revenants / Michael Cuntz ; Chapter 10. Specters of the U.S. Prison Regime: Haunting Tourism and the Penal Gaze / Benjamin D'Harlingue -- Part 3. Chasing Ghosts In(to) the Twenty-first Century. Chapter 11. The Liveness of Ghosts: Haunting and Reality TV / Karen Williams ; Chapter 12. Ghost Hunters: Simulated Participation in Televisual Hauntings / Alissa Burger ; Chapter 13. The Haunted Lecture Theater: Ghosts in the Academy in the BBC's Sea of Souls / Catherine Spooner -- Part 4. Other Ghostly Spheres. Chapter 14. Genius Loci: Memory, Media, and the Neo-Gothic in Georg Klein and Elfriede Jelinek / Arno Meteling ; Chapter 15. Haunted Habitability: Wilderness and American Haunted House Narratives / Christine Wilson ; Chapter 16. Gothic Affects: Digitally Haunted Houses and the Production of Affect-Value / Bruno Lessard ; Chapter 17. Ghosts in the Machine: The Body in Digital Animation / Alla Gadassik ; Chapter 18. The Ghost Worlds of Modern Adolescence / Pamela Thurschwell -- Part 5. Ambient Ghosts: Spectral Images, Sounds, and Bodies. Chapter 19. The Haunting of the Everyday in the Thoughtographs of Ted Serios / María del Pilar Blanco ; Chapter 20. "Following the Ghost": The Psychogeography of Alternative Country / Anthony Hutchison ; Chapter 21. Haunted by a Melody: Ghosts, Transgression, and Music in Twin Peaks / Isabella van Elferen ; Chapter 22. Occultic Inscriptions: The Modern Ghost-Tattoo in Japan, from Kyôsai to Horiyoshi III / Sean Somers.

Content: "Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are united by the impulse to theorize the cultural work that ghosts do within the trans-historical contexts that comprise our understanding of everyday life. These authors study the theoretical and aesthetic genealogies of the spectral, while also commenting on the multiple everyday spaces that this category occupies. Rather than looking to a single tradition or medium, the essays in Popular Ghosts explore film, novels, photography, television, music, social practices, and political structures from different cultures to reopen the questions that surround our haunted sense of the everyday."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-319) and index

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Content: " Haunting, exhilarating, and a howl of vengeance. 8212 Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us Frankenstein meets Inglourious Basterds in this stunning Jewish historical horror novel from the award-winning author of The City Beautiful Vera was made for vengeance. Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can't bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can use kishuf 8212 an ancient and profane magic 8212 to create a golem in her image. A Nazi killer, to avenge her death. When Vera awakens, she can feel her violent purpose thrumming within her. But she can also feel glimpses of a human life lived, of stolen kisses amidst the tragedy, and of a grisly death. And when she meets Akiva, she recognizes the boy with soft lips that gave warm kisses. But these memories aren't hers, and Vera doesn't know if she gets8212 or deserves8212 to have a life beyond what she was made for. Vera's strength feels limitless8212 until she learns that there are others who would channel kishuf for means far less noble than avenging a daughter's death. As she confronts the very basest of humanity, Vera will need more than what her creator gave her: Not just a reason to fight, but a reason to live. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook."

Content: Biographisches: "Aden Polydoros is an award-winning author who transitioned from female-to-male when he was 14. After going 'stealth' for over 10 years, he came out as transgender in order to support trans youth and vocalize how transitioning saved his life. His YA gothic fantasy novel, The City Beautiful , won the Sydney Taylor Book Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Cybils Award, the South Carolina Book Award, and the 2022 World Fantasy Award."

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Content: "The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic development of the English short story to the present day, the historical development of the genre is presented in the first history of its kind. There is no single book that provides such an overview. Written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and trans-historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English Literature students and scholars of the English Short Story generally, this book has the potential to become a standard work of reference within its field"--

Content: Machine generated contents note: List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Dominic Head; 1. Early-modern diversity: the origins of English short fiction Barbara Korte; 2. Short prose narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Donald J. Newman; 3. Gothic and Victorian supernatural tales Jessica Cox; 4. The Victorian potboiler: novelists writing short stories Sophie Gilmartin; 5. Fable, myth and folktale: the writing of oral and traditional story forms Andrew Harrison; 6. The colonial short story, adventure and the exotic Robert Hampson; 7. The Yellow Book circle and the culture of the literary magazine Winnie Chan; 8. The modernist short story: fractured perspectives Claire Drewery; 9. War stories: the short story in World Wars I and II Ann-Marie Einhaus; 10. The short story in Ireland to 1945: a national literature Heather Ingman; 11. The short story in Ireland since 1945: a modernizing tradition Heather Ingman; 12. The short story in Scotland: from oral tale to dialectal style Timothy C. Baker; 13. The short story in Wales: cultivated regionalism Jane Aaron; 14. The understated art, English style Dean Baldwin; 15. The rural tradition in the English short story Dominic Head; 16. Metropolitan modernity: stories of London Neal Alexander; 17. Gender and genre: short fiction, feminism and female experience Sabine Coelsch-Foisner; 18. Queer short stories: an inverted history Brett Josef Grubisic and Carellin Brooks; 19. Stories of Jewish identity: survivors, exiles and cosmopolitans Axel Stahler; 20. New voices: multicultural short stories Abigail Ward; 21. Settler stories: postcolonial short fiction Victoria Kuttainen; 22. After Empire: postcolonial short fiction and the oral tradition John Thieme; 23. Ghost stories and supernatural tales Ruth Robbins; 24. The detective story: order from chaos Andrew Maunder; 25. Frontiers: science fiction and the British marketplace Paul March-Russell; 26. Weird stories: the potency of horror and fantasy Roger Luckhurst; 27. Experimentalism: self-reflexive and postmodernist stories David James; 28. Satirical stories: estrangement and social critique Sandie Byrne; 29. Comedic short fiction Richard Bradford; 30. Short story cycles: between the novel and the story collection Gerald Lynch; 31. The novella: between the novel and the story Gerri Kimber; 32. The short story visualized: adaptations and screenplays Linda Costanzo Cahir; 33. The short story anthology: shaping the canon Lynda Prescott; 34. The institution of creative writing Ailsa Cox; 35. Short story futures Julian Murphet; Bibliography; Index

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 615-624

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The Cambridge history of the English short story Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016 ISBN 9781107167421

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Content: " Haunting, exhilarating, and a howl of vengeance. 8212 Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us Frankenstein meets Inglourious Basterds in this stunning Jewish historical horror novel from the award-winning author of The City Beautiful Vera was made for vengeance. Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can't bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can use kishuf 8212 an ancient and profane magic 8212 to create a golem in her image. A Nazi killer, to avenge her death. When Vera awakens, she can feel her violent purpose thrumming within her. But she can also feel glimpses of a human life lived, of stolen kisses amidst the tragedy, and of a grisly death. And when she meets Akiva, she recognizes the boy with soft lips that gave warm kisses. But these memories aren't hers, and Vera doesn't know if she gets8212 or deserves8212 to have a life beyond what she was made for. Vera's strength feels limitless8212 until she learns that there are others who would channel kishuf for means far less noble than avenging a daughter's death. As she confronts the very basest of humanity, Vera will need more than what her creator gave her: Not just a reason to fight, but a reason to live. "

Content: Biographisches: "Aden Polydoros is an award-winning author who transitioned from female-to-male when he was 14. After going 'stealth' for over 10 years, he came out as transgender in order to support trans youth and vocalize how transitioning saved his life. His YA gothic fantasy novel, The City Beautiful , won the Sydney Taylor Book Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Cybils Award, the South Carolina Book Award, and the 2022 World Fantasy Award." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 14, 2023 A golem created by a grieving father sets out to combat Nazis in this alluring fantasy horror novel by Polydoros ( The Bone Weaver ). In 1943 Lithuania, Jewish WWI veteran Ezra uses forbidden magic and parts of his teenage Nazi-resister daughter Chaya’s corpse to build Vera, a golem meant to avenge her death. When Ezra disappears and the family hiding him and Vera is murdered, Vera flees into the woods and encounters Akiva, Chaya’s comrade and lover. After murdering the man who killed Chaya, Vera searches for Ezra. She suspects that the answers to his whereabouts lie within the so-called archive, a compilation of Jewish texts currently guarded by Nazi forces. With the help of other resisters and partisan fighters, Akiva and Vera smuggle themselves into the Vilna ghetto, where they learn that the Nazis are seeking Jewish writings relating to ancient magic. Though Vera doesn’t understand their motive, when she realizes that the Nazis are shipping a powerful weapon to the area, she hatches a dangerous plan to intercept it and turn the tide of the war. Without sacrificing emotional impact or contemporary resonance, Polydoros implements frequently explored Jewish lore surrounding golems with a fresh and inventive angle. Relentlessly disconcerting ambiance adds to the novel’s eerie feel, making for an engrossing alternate history adventure. Ages 14–up. Agent: Sam Farkas, Jill Grinberg Literary Management. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 1, 2023 A golem created during World War II to kill Nazis ponders the meaning of humanity. Vera was crafted not just from clay but also magic and body parts taken from Chaya, a 17-year-old Jewish girl from Lithuania who was murdered by Nazis. Seeking vengeance, Chaya's father makes Vera in his beloved daughter's image. He also gives her access to some of Chaya's memories so Vera can destroy the men responsible. Told through Vera's first-person narration, the story follows the nearly indestructible golem as she attempts to follow this command while questioning her own existence and purpose. Chaya was in love with Akiva, a Jewish Lithuanian boy, so when Vera meets him, she's unsure if her feelings are her own or just the remnants of Chaya's. Still, they work together, especially when they learn of Nazi plans to use knowledge stolen from Vera's creator. The historical setting is richly portrayed and doesn't shy away from atrocities as it focuses on the war's impact on civilian life. The fantasy elements are beautifully blended in, deepening the darkness and horror of the story, particularly as they relate to Vera's internal turmoil. She was built for wrath, and sometimes the tale leans into this anger and violence, but more often it's slower paced, occasionally meandering and lyrical, as it raises philosophical questions about human nature. A haunting and thoughtful World War II tale with a dark, magical bent. (content warning, map, glossary) (Historical fantasy. 14-18) COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 15, 2023 Grades 10-12 Vera is a golem, made from mud and water and the hair, teeth, and eyes of her maker's daughter. That maker is a man whose daughter, Chaya, was killed by the Nazis, and he used forbidden magic to create Vera with one purpose: to kill Nazis. Stronger than humans and impervious to bullets, Vera can only be harmed if the mark on her forehead, representing truth, is damaged. But when Vera leaves her maker's house and enters the world of 1940s Lithuania, she meets Akiva, a boy who loved the girl whose body and memories Vera is made from. Vera has to discover where Chaya ends and she begins, decide if she can--or should--try to live a human life away from the horrors unfolding around her, or if she exists only to fulfill her deadly purpose and return to the mud. Polydoros' historical horror fantasy, informed by Jewish mythology, is a terrifying, thought-provoking book that will linger in the reader's mind for a long time. COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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Content: "A heart-pounding adventure. Magic and monsters lurk in every corner as a headstrong trio search for their place in Aden Polydoros's haunting world. 8211 8211 Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights From the author of The City Beautiful comes a haunting fantasy following Toma, adopted daughter of the benevolent undead, making her way across a civil war-torn continent to save her younger sister as she discovers she might possess magical powers herself. The Kosa empire roils in tension, on the verge of being torn apart by a proletarian revolution between magic-endowed elites and the superstitious lower class, but seventeen-year-old Toma lives blissfully disconnected from the conflict in the empire with her adoptive family of benevolent undead. When she meets Vanya, a charming commoner branded as a witch by his own neighbors, and the dethroned Tsar Mikhail himself, the unlikely trio bonds over trying to restore Mikhail's magic and protect the empire from the revolutionary leader, Koschei, whose forces have stolen the castle. Vanya has his magic, and Mikhail has his title, but if Toma can't dig deep and find her power in time, all of their lives will be at Koschei's mercy. Praise for The City Beautiful An achingly rendered exploration of queer desire, grief, and the inexorable scars of the past. 8212 Katy Rose Pool, author of There Will Come A Darkness Chillingly sinister, warmly familiar, and breathtakingly transportive, The City Beautiful is the haunting, queer Jewish historical thriller of my darkest dreams. 8212 Dahlia Adler, creator of LGBTQreads and editor of That Way Madness Lies "

Content: Biographisches: "Aden Polydoros is an award-winning author who transitioned from female-to-male when he was 14. After going 'stealth' for over 10 years, he came out as transgender in order to support trans youth and vocalize how transitioning saved his life. His YA gothic fantasy novel, The City Beautiful , won the Sydney Taylor Book Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Cybils Award, the South Carolina Book Award, and the 2022 World Fantasy Award." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 1, 2022 A rescue mission embroils a young woman in political conflict. Dwelling in the wilderness with her adoptive family, who are upyri, or living dead, Toma has not seen another living human in years until an airship crash brings civilization violently to her door. Nursing the sole survivor back to health, Toma discovers he is the recently deposed Tsar Mikhail Vladimirovich of House Morev. Fraktsiya rebels attempt to capture Mikhail, but when this fails, they take Toma's sister, Galina, to placate their leader, Koschei. Toma leaves with Mikhail on a race against time to find and rescue Galina before she is used in an experiment or killed. On their journey, they meet Vanya, who is a member of the Strannik religious minority. He offers them a stark glimpse into the dark side of Mikhail's empire, a country where Strannik are scapegoated for societal ills and executed on trumped up charges of witchcraft. Vanya joins Toma in her quest while attempting to convince Mikhail to enact real societal change once he regains his throne. In this fascinating world filled with supernatural creatures and an entrancing magic system, Toma serves as an excellent main character, her years of isolation with only the dead for company giving her a sense of wonder at the places and cultures that have long become mundane for the others. Most characters in this Russian-inspired fantasy world read White,queer identities are mentioned in passing. A dark and thrilling tale. (author's note, glossary) (Fantasy. 13-18) COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 19, 2022 Polydoros ( The City Beautiful ) constructs a rich, Slavic-folklore-influenced world in this spirited adventure with emotional heft. Toma lives in the hinterlands of the Kosa Empire with her adoptive family of living dead beings called upyri. Despite not having met another living person in many years, she one day rescues airship crash survivor Mikhail and heals his wounds using magical embroidery techniques her birth mother taught her. A shaken Mikhail confesses he is the empire’s tsar, ousted by evil witch Koschei, who stole his magical powers and is spearheading a revolution against nobility. When the men hunting him instead take Toma’s younger sister, Galina, to appease Koschei’s fascination with the upyri, Toma and Mikhail follow the kidnappers to a small town. There, they meet prickly Vanya, part of a persecuted religious minority who can make plants grow rapidly, even from dead wood, and together the trio work to rescue Galina and return Mikhail to the throne—whether or not he wants to be there. Toma’s rapidly expanding worldview and joyful exploration of society beyond the hinterlands, after spending years in relative isolation with only her undead family for company, is captivating. Polydoros capably delivers an enchanting fantasy adventure, brimming with civil war allegiances, encounters with monsters, innovative magic systems, and fantastical new technology. Ages 13–up. Agent: Thao Le, Sandra Dijkstra Literary. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from September 1, 2022 Grades 9-12 *Starred Review* This superb secondary world fantasy by Polydoros (The City Beautiful, 2021) finds teenage Toma living in the wilderness with her adoptive parents and younger sister, Galina, all three of whom are upyri, the living dead. One day Toma (who is not a upyri) and Galina discover a small wrecked airship,its pilot is dying, and his young passenger is seriously wounded. Toma manages to heal the passenger and is astounded to discover that he is Mikhail, the deposed tsar. Two enemy soldiers who have been pursuing him kidnap Galina to take her to Koschei, a male witch who is the power-mad leader of the revolution. Toma, accompanied by the tsar, sets off to rescue her sister. Along the way, the two are joined by a second young man, Vanya, and the three continue their quest to save Galina, defeat Koschei, and return Mikhail to the throne. Loosely based on Slavic and Baltic folklore and Russian history, the story is replete with monsters and magic, not to mention the book's Russian--influenced lexicon (vodyanoy, mavka, etc.), which is defined in an essential glossary. Polydoros is a master of world building and conjuring suspense in a page-turning plot. His characters are highly empathetic and memorable, as is this emotionally charged story. An open ending suggests a sequel. One can only hope. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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