When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again - Poems

Praise for A. Van Jordan

"For several books now, A. Van Jordan has been proving himself master of the dramatic monologue.... With an imagination illuminated by empathy, Jordan inhabits the eye of the camera, the eye of the actor, and the 'I' of a viewer tethered to image and history."
-Terrance Hayes

  "A. Van Jordan is one of the most capacious, deep-structural imaginations in American poetry today."
-Linda Gregerson

  "[A. Van Jordan] finds evocative new ways to connect us to a shared storytelling heritage."
-Entertainment Weekly

About the author

A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry. He has been a finalist for the Rilke Prize and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award. He is the humanities and sciences chair of English literature at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.

Summary

A dynamic, moving hybrid work that celebrates Black youth, often too fleeting, and examines Black lives lost to police violence.?

Product details

• Authors: A van Jordan, A. Van Jordan, Jordan A. Van
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2023
• EAN: 9781324050933
• ISBN: 978-1-324-05093-3
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 293 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry, poetry;race;culture;emotion;desire;longing