Description |
xvii, 299 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents |
Preface by Tracy K. Smith -- Patricia Smith, Salutation in search of -- Randall Kenan, Learning from the ghosts of the Civil War -- Edwidge Danticat, Mourning -- Su Hwang, Why the rebellion had to begin here -- Michael Kleber-Diggs, On the complex flavors of Black joy -- Amaud Jamul Johnson, Letter from the fault lines of Midwestern racism -- Layli Long Soldier, I cannot stop: a response to the murder of George Floyd -- Sofian Merabet, Be safe out there (and other American delusions, rhetorical and otherwise) -- Nyle Fort, I hated that I had to see your face through plexiglass -- Daniel Pena, Let these protests bring light to America -- Claudia Castro Luna, Letter from a Seattle protest -- Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Finding justice in the streets -- Indigo Moor, A riotous anodyne -- Tracy K. Smith, A letter to Black America -- Joshua Bennett, Where is Black life lived? -- Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, On the endless mourning of the present -- Ali Black, On protest, laughter, and finding breath -- Gregory Pardlo, Letter to Juneteenth -- Major Jackson, Letter from Burlington -- James Noel, Black prayer -- Dawn Lundy Martin, Sense -- Indrissa Simmonds-Nastili, Black motherhood in sleepless times -- Cynthia Tucker, Letter to a mother who survived and thrived -- Jasmon Drain, "Maybe" (letter to a daughter who will wear two masks) -- Camille T. Dungy, This'll hurt me more -- Ross Gay, Have I ever told you all the courts I've loved -- Samiya Bashir, Letter from exile: finding home in a pandemic -- Hector Tobar, A generational uprising -- Oscar Villalon, When the shadow is looming -- Manuel Munoz, From plagues to protests to wildfires -- Craig Santos Perez, Postcards from a quarantined paradise -- Julia Alvarez, Three liberties: past, present, yet to come -- Nikky Finney, Letter to John Robert Lewis -- Reginald Dwayne Betts, Kamala Harris, mass incarceration, and me -- Lilly Wachowski, Rufus fascism, at the ballot box and in the street -- Monica Youn, Why I'm getting out of the boiler room this election -- Keenga-Yamahtta Taylor, Voting Trump out is not enough -- Francisco Goldman, Fall of Trump: on presidents, dictators, and life after a regime -- Sasha LaPointe, Thunder song -- Kirsten West Savali, On motherhood and ancestral resistance. |
Summary |
"We are living through an unprecedented, revolutionary era. People have lost loved ones, livelihoods, homes, and even their own lives to Covid-19. Historic protests erupted in the summer of 2020 over the constant brutality against Black Americans. Galvanizing and lyrical, There's a Revolution Outside, My Love captures and gives voice to all the roiling sentiments of the moment in an anthology for the ages. Drawing its title from a powerful letter to her son by journalist Kirsten West Savali, the book fans out across a troubled, shattered America, offering a kaleidoscopic view of survival, grief, and the search for joy. Composed of searing letters, essays, poems, lamentations, and exhortations. There's a Revolution Outside, My Love highlights the work of some of our most powerful and treasured writers: Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and many others. They hair from across a range of backgrounds and from nearly all fifty states. Noisy with beauty, they plead for safety and justice. This is an intimate collection of writing that offers a space to mourn and ponder what the nation is, and what it can be."--back cover. |
Subject(S) |
Social problems -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- United States.
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Essays.
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Personal correspondence.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021.
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Essays.
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Added Name(S) |
Smith, Tracy K., editor.
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Freeman, John, 1974- editor.
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Note |
There is a revolution outside, my love |
ISBN |
9780593314692 (hardcover) |
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0593314697 (hardcover) |
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