The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of What it means to fight for yourself What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration and the realities of Black life in America. --Carl Phillips, fr.
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of What it means to fight for yourself Bailey invites us to see What twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological.
These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance. . . .
Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey\'s poems argue for hope and faith equally.
The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood.
Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution.
Desiree C.
Wherever this voice goes a Caribbean sun travels with it transfiguring What a maroon might overhear--a call awaiting response.--Yusef Komunyakaa The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America.
Bailey sings true in her debut. --Carl Phillips, from the Foreword Desiree C.
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of What it means to fight for yourself Bailey invites us to see What twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological.
These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance. . . .
Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey\'s poems argue for hope and faith equally.
The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation and womanhood.
Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution.
Desiree C.
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of What it means to fight for yourself What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration and the realities of Black life in America
