Bibliograph

What noise against the cane, Desiree C. Bailey ; foreword by Carl Phillips

Type

Label

What noise against the cane, Desiree C. Bailey ; foreword by Carl Phillips

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

What noise against the cane

Oclc number

1184236497

Responsibility statement

Desiree C. Bailey ; foreword by Carl Phillips

Series statement

Yale series of younger poets, volume 115

Summary

What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey's "poems argue for hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance."

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