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There's a revolution outside, my love : letters from a crisis

Title: There's a revolution outside, my love : letters from a crisis / edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman.
Publication: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2021.

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xvii, 299 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today--Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor--to give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born in an era of revolution and change." --
We are living through an unprecedented, revolutionary era. People have lost loved ones, livelihoods, homes, and even their own lives to Covid-19. Historic protests erupted in the summer of 2020 over the constant brutality against Black Americans. Galvanizing and lyrical, There's a Revolution Outside, My Love captures and gives voice to all the roiling sentiments of the moment in an anthology for the ages. Drawing its title from a powerful letter to her son by journalist Kirsten West Savali, the book fans out across a troubled, shattered America, offering a kaleidoscopic view of survival, grief, and the search for joy. Composed of searing letters, essays, poems, lamentations, and exhortations, There's a Revolution Outside, My Love highlights the work of some of our most powerful and treasured writers: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and many others. They hail from across a range of backgrounds and from nearly all fifty states. Noisy with beauty, they plead for safety and justice. This is an intimate collection of writing that offers a space to mourn and ponder what the nation is, and what it can be. --

Subject

Genre/Form

Essays.
History.
Personal correspondence.

Contents

Salutation in search of / Patricia Smith -- Learning from the ghosts of the Civil War / Randall Kenan -- Mourning / Edwidge Danticat -- Why the rebellion had to begin here / Su Hwang -- On the complex flavors of Black joy / Michael Kleber-Digger -- Letter from fault lines of Midwestern racism / Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- I cannot stop: a response to the murder of George Floyd / Layli Long Soldier -- Be safe out there (and other American delusions, rhetorical and otherwise) / Sofian Merabet -- I hated that I had to see your face through plexiglass / Nyle Fort -- Let these protests bring light to America / Daniel Peňa -- Letters from a Seattle protest / Claudia Castro Luna -- Finding justice in the streets / Pitchaya Sudbanthad -- A riotous antodyne / Indigo Moot -- A letter to Black America / Tracy K. Smith -- Where is Black life lived? / Joshua Bennett -- On the endless mourning of the present / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- On protests, laughter, and finding breath / Ali Black -- Letters to Juneteeth / Gregory Pardlo -- Letter from Burlington / Major Jackson -- Black prayer / James Noél -- Sense / Dawn Lundy Martin -- Black motherhood in sleepless times / Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili -- Letter to a mother who survived and thrived / Cynthia Tucker -- "Maybe" (letter to a daughter who will wear two masks) Jasmon Drain -- This'll hurt me more / Camille T. Dungy -- Have I ever told you all the courts I've loved / Ross Gay -- Letter from exile: finding home in a pandemic / Samiya Bashir -- A generational uprising / Héctor Tobar -- When the shadow is looming / Oscar Villalon -- From plagues to protest to wildfires / Manuel Muňoz -- Postcards from quarantined paradise / Craig Santos Perez -- Three liberties: past, present, yet to come / Julia Alvarez -- Letter to John Robert Lewis / Nikky Finney -- Kamala Harris, mass incarceration, and me / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Refuse fascism, at the ballet box and in the street / Lilly Wachowski -- Why I'm getting out of the boiler room this election / Monica Youn -- Voting Trump out is not enough / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -- The fall of Trump: on presidents, dictators, and life after a regime / Francisco Goldman -- Thunder song / Sasha LaPointe -- On motherhood and ancestral resistance / Kirsten West Savali.

Call Number

Sc D 22-286

ISBN

0593314697
9780593314692

LCCN

2021286461

OCLC

1226169504

Title

There's a revolution outside, my love : letters from a crisis / edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman.

Publisher

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, POETRY, & LETTERS REFLECT AMERICAN THOUGHT IN 2020. EDITED BY PULITZER-WINNER.

Chronological Term

Since 1980

Added Author

Smith, Tracy K., editor.

Freeman, John, 1974- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-286

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