TY  - GEN
T1  - Road Trip.
A1  - Hanley, Mary Stone
A2  - Faktorovich, Anna
LA  - English
PP  - Brownsville
PB  - Anaphora Literary Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1012345468
AB  - Mary Stone Hanley's debut collection of poems, Road Trip, is a journey at the same time physical, historical, and spiritual. While it travels through the realms of childhood and approaching death, it also plots the way along the road from Civil Rights, to the Black Arts Movement, to avant-garde jazz of the 1960s, and the Black Lives Matter movement of contemporary times. In a stirring section essential to the message of her poetry, the author "translates" John Coltrane's Love Supreme into verse, culminating with a resounding "Thank you, God," spoken in unison by the jazz great and the poet herself. As her passing approaches, the speaker of these poems doesn't flinch at endings: but her affirmations move like her poetry toward openings and possibility. "No matter how the dream may go," she writes in the final poem, "Dialectically Speaking," there is no end/ no last." Road Trip is a journey that disappears into the vanishing point, recognizing along the way that past, future and even existence itself is defined by who is looking and what one chooses to acknowledge. With a clear eye and with the poise and cadence of a master, Mary Stone Hanley guides us to the trail's end, where witness and compassion become the measure of a life--back cover.
OP  - 70
CN  - PS3608.A715
SN  - 9781681143965
SN  - 1681143968
SN  - 9781681143941
KW  - Poetry : Women authors.
KW  - American poetry : African American authors.
KW  - Poetry, Modern : 21st century.
KW  - American poetry.
KW  - Poésie américaine.
KW  - Écrits de femmes.
KW  - Poésie américaine : Auteurs noirs américains.
KW  - Poésie : 21e siècle.
KW  - FICTION : General.
KW  - American poetry
KW  - American poetry : African American authors
KW  - Poetry, Modern
KW  - Poetry : Women authors
KW  - 2000-2099
ER  -