the skin of dreams
new and collected poems 1995-2018
by Quraysh Ali Lansana
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Pub Date Apr 27 2019 | Archive Date May 22 2019
The Calliope Group | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
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Description
the skin of dreams is a remembering, an offering and a gathering of geographies.
Traversing twenty-three years of earth and breath, Quraysh Ali Lansana’s first new and collected works roadmaps small town Oklahoma to southside Chicago in compelling poems that question, surprise and dare.
As a direct descendent of the Black Arts Movement and last student of Miss Gwendolyn Brooks, Lansana explores the complicated internal and external terrain of Blackness and history from a post-King, post-Kennedy childhood through the election of the first non-White president, while grappling with the definition of home. These are poems that cry, sing, scream and see.
A Note From the Publisher
eBook: 978-1-7336474-1-0
Advance Praise
“In Quraysh Ali Lansana, we find our griot singing both his history and our own in the skin of dreams, and what a soulful chord he strikes—and has been striking!—throughout the years. There’s “language echoing itself,” extending the cadences of Chicago and Tulsa and beyond, and finding the music in them. “I mean these words/ these words I mean,” they celebrate the work put in and they chronicle the dedication Lansana has put into keeping history current, chronicling the human experience through the African American presence. In this gift of New and Selected poems, he “captures present moments fleeting seconds” understanding “we will never be here again,” but we’re grateful for his song, which keeps harkening back while pushing us forward.”
--A. Van Jordan, Author of Rise and Quantum Lyrics
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Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781733647403 |
PRICE | $16.00 (USD) |
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