Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for PoetryAngela Jackson brings her remarkable linguistic and poetic gifts to the articulation of African-American experience. The recurrent motif of the spider, which she presents as both creator and predator, demonstrates her deliberate reshaping of myth in the context of contemporary human experience. Informed by African-American speech and poetic traditions, yet uniquely her own, these poems display Jackson's stylistic grace, her exuberance and vitality of spirit, and her emotional sensitivity and psychological insight.
- ISBN13 9780810150263
- Publish Date 30 November 1993
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 March 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 103
- Language English