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Title There's a revolution outside, my love : letters from a crisis / edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman.

Publisher New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2021.
©2021

ISBN 9780593314692 (hardcover)
0593314697 (hardcover)



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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.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- United States.
Essays.
Personal correspondence.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021.
Essays.
Added Name(S) Smith, Tracy K., editor.
Freeman, John, 1974- editor.
Note There is a revolution outside, my love
ISBN 9780593314692 (hardcover)
0593314697 (hardcover)