Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms.
Poems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in.
This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson\'s new and uncollected Poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities.
Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms