Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poetI think now more than halfOf life is death but I can't dieEnough for all the life I seeHere, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of Jefferson Davis, wanders through the afterlife, reckoning with the nuances of America's, as well as his own, racial history.Sometimes I Never Suffered is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time's manifold potential to mend.
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ISBN | 9781472155801 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | T S Eliot Prize, American poetry, best reviewed poetry, Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Little, Brown and Company |
Jahr | 20200806 |
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