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Song of Gray approaches Black experience by clarifying the concrete worlds that exist between humanity and objecthood. Asha Futterman renders this in-between space as it reveals itself in performance: in a contemporary performance workshop, at an audition, in a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, and in the dailiness of the YMCA, her porch, the walk to the train. n These poems build new logic systems. Futterman stands at her grandmothers grave and proclaims, how powerful how dense and naked how inaccurate. With quiet, deadpan, and piercing language, Song of Gray offers earnest, felt relationships to race, empathy, pleasure, and nonsense. n n There wasnt a sunrise / just gray / then brighter gray. In Song of Gray, blackness is not definite--it is an ambivalent hole as much as an area of hope. Blackness is a song of grayn
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Vânzător: Libris.ro
Brand: Asha Futterman
