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To free the captives : a plea for the American soul

Title
To free the captives : a plea for the American soul / Tracy K. Smith.
Author
Smith, Tracy K.
Publication
  • New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
  • ©2023

Details

Description
265 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
Summary
  • "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a stunning meditation on ritual and collectiveness that explores how older forms of inquiry-from song to prayer to ways of public gathering-might help us all survive violent times and address America's shared history"--
  • Smith begins in Sunflower, Alabama, where her grandfather returned after World War I with a hero's record but difficult prospects as a Black man. She consider the life of her father through the lens of history, then bears witness to the terms of freedom afforded her as Black woman, mother, and educator in the twenty-first century. Her book provides a sounding board for our most pressing collective questions: Where are we going as a nation? Where have we been? -- adapted from jacket
Alternative Title
Plea for the American soul
Subject
  • Smith, Tracy K
  • Smith, Tracy K. > Family
  • African American women authors > Biography
  • African Americans > History
  • African Americans > Social conditions
  • Écrivaines noires américaines > Biographies
  • Noirs américains > Histoire
  • Noirs américains > Conditions sociales
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
  • African American women authors
  • African Americans
  • African Americans > Social conditions
  • Race relations
  • United States > Race relations
  • États-Unis > Relations raciales
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Biographies
  • History
Note
  • "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Contents
Train of souls -- The free and the freed -- One more sunny day - Scenes from a marriage, or: What is the American imagination -- Sobriety -- The Northern Territory -- Coda: Up ahead.
ISBN
  • 9780593534762
  • 059353476X
  • 9780593534779 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2023001898
OCLC
YBP 2023001898
Author
Smith, Tracy K., author.
Title
To free the captives : a plea for the American soul / Tracy K. Smith.
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Other Form:
Online version: Smith, Tracy K. To free the captives New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023 9780593534779 (DLC) 2023001899
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