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Blue Front
A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins...
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A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins
the victim hanged, though not on a tree, thiswas not the country, they used a steel arch
with electric lights, and later a lamppost, this
was a modern event, the trees were not involved.
--from "Blue Front" Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking. In Blue Front, Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the mercilessness of the spectators. The poems patch together an arresting array of evidence--newspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collins's speculations
about her father's own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.
Author: Martha Collins
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 05/30/2006
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.48w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781555974497
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/01/2006 pg. 39
Booklist 05/01/2006 pg. 65
New York Times 09/24/2006 pg. 29
Multicultural Review 05/01/2007 pg. 69
About the Author
Martha Collins is the author of four previous poetry collections, including Some Things Words Can Do, and co-translator of two volumes of poetry from the Vietnamese. She teaches at Oberlin College and lives in Oberlin, Ohio, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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