{"product_id":"9780807147368","title":"Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eConjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857 for the creation of Central Park. \"Bivouac in a Storm\" tells the story of a group of young soldiers, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, as they trained near Biloxi, Mississippi, \"marching in summer heat \/ thick as blackstrap molasses, under trees \/ haunted by whippings.\" Later pieces range from the poet's travels in Africa, Europe, and Polynesia, to poems written in collaboration with Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, a former Benedictine monk and the subject of Nelson's playful fictional fantasy sequence, \"Adventure-Monk!\" Both personal and historical, these poems remain grounded in everyday details but reach toward spiritual and moral truths.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079017906416,"sku":"9780807147368","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807147368_p0.jpg?v=1763737670","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807147368","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}