When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems by Jordan, A. Van
When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems by Jordan, A. Van

When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems

In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to...
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When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems by Jordan, A. Van

When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems

$33.37
When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems by Jordan, A. Van

When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems

$33.37
Author: A. Van Jordan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays--Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of Othello--to mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black children, at the hands of police officers. What do these characters, and the ways they are defined by the white figures who surround them, have in common with Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, and other Black people killed in the twenty-first century?

Balancing anger and grief with celebration, Jordan employs an elastic variety of poetic forms, including ekphrastic sestinas inspired by the photography of Malick Sidib?, fictional dialogues, and his signature definition poems that break down the insidious power of words like "fair," "suspect," and "juvenile." He invents a new form of window poems, based on a characterization exercise, to see Shakespeare's Black characters in three dimensions, and finds contemporary parallels in the way these characters are othered, rendered at once undesirable and hypersexualized, a threat and a joke.

At once a stunning inquiry into the roots of racist violence and a moving recognition of the joy of Black youth before the world takes hold, When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again expresses the preciousness and precarity of life.



Author: A. Van Jordan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781324105169
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