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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Word time
    sub title: poems
  title info:
    title: Word time (Compilation)
  name:
    name part: Major, Devorah
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 94 pages : portrait ; 18 cm.
  abstract: Hearing Osage Indian artist Duane BigEagle pose the question "How old is your language?" set Devorah major thinking about language and what language was "hers." The result is word time, a collection of poems organized around grammatical categories. The book creates connections, not through the traditional meanings of the parts of speech that become phrases, sentences, lines, poems, but through the relationship between infinite time and the finite human endeavors of healing and of assault. It interrogates the birth and rebirth of humankind, and specifically of humans born of Africa and the African diaspora, a subset and superset of that humanity, grounded in the planet, galaxy and universe where humanity was born. Juxtaposing the archetypal with the specific, word time ranges in scope from Yoruba fertility myths to the racist justification of slavery in Florida's social studies curriculum, traveling through space and time as it contemplates the horrors of ecological destruction and the perpetual capacity of humanity to survive, heal and move forward in a universe that is constantly transforming. It takes a circular view of our species from its origins to the fact of its inevitable future demise, telling the story of humans then, as spirit and myth, now, as war and oppression, and in the future, as memory.
  note: Devorah Major.
  classification: PS3563.A3915 W67 2025
  classification: 811/.54
  identifier: 9780872869417
  identifier: 0872869415
  identifier: 9780872869424
  identifier: 2025022363
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250602
    record change date: 20260112192403.0
    record identifier: in00005674300