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Synopsis
Poetry. African American Studies. Latin American Studies. Esperanza Cintrón's VISIONS OF A POST-APOCALYPTIC SUNRISE: DETROIT POEMS begins "to the strains of B. B. King's 'The Thrill is Gone'" and ends with the "strained falsettos / of an R & B quartet dressed / in sharkskin and doing a Motown / dip and strut across the grand stage." Music in this poetry collection pulses to the rise and fall of black municipal power in Detroit. It explores the working class values that encouraged survival in the face of devastating loss, values that enabled the people to believe that they had some control over their fate even when confronted by overwhelming power. The poems suggest a cyclical sweep that begins with the intimacies of a separate black community, moves through the political and economic turmoil and ends with a return to what remains, the remnants of a familial community. Included is an interview with poet Esperanza Cintrón conducted by Lillien Waller and Lena Cintrón.
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About the Author
Esperanza Cintrón is the author of three collections of poetry, CHOCOLATE CITY LATINA (Swank Press, 2005), What Keeps Me Sane (Lotus Press, 2013), which won the 2013 Naomi Long Madgett Award, and VISIONS OF A POST- APOCALYPTIC SUNRISE: DETROIT POEMS (Stockport Flats, 2014). She was the recipient of a Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, The Metro Times Poetry Prize and a 2012 Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow at Brown University. Her poetry, fiction and essays appear in a number of anthologies and journals including Double Stitch (Beacon Press), Erotique Noire/Black Erotica (Doubleday), Abandoned Automobile (WSU Press), 13th Moon and The Little Magazine (SUNY Press), The Latin Americanist and Hispanic Outlook. She holds a doctorate in English Literature from The University of the State of New York. While in New York, she co-founded The Sisters of Color Writers Collective and created its literary journal Seeds, which was published from 1989 to 2006. Currently, she lives in downtown Detroit where she also teaches writing and literature at a local college.
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- PublisherStockport Flats
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0991187814
- ISBN 13 9780991187812
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages102
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