Shade is a place /
Shade is a place meanders east-west along Charlottesville's Downtown Mall, seeking "a Black sense of place" at the pace of stressed shade and street trees, the mall's architectural history and the speaker's ongoing questions and reflections. The collection of poems is a movi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2025].
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| Series: | National poetry series.
Penguin poets. |
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| Summary: | Shade is a place meanders east-west along Charlottesville's Downtown Mall, seeking "a Black sense of place" at the pace of stressed shade and street trees, the mall's architectural history and the speaker's ongoing questions and reflections. The collection of poems is a moving invitation to open one's attention by looking up, down and always within. Through lyric walking poems ("tree walks" and "shade walks") and BashÅ-style travelogue, Shade is a place unfolds as much through arboreal life as through one's inner life, sometimes alone, sometimes with others and always among turning trees. |
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| Physical Description: | 86 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780143138457 0143138456 |