Reconstructing Eden - Indigo Moor

Combining unsettling imagery with inventive form, this powerful collection explores the inner struggle to resist violence.  In Reconstructing Eden, Indigo Moor performs an exorcism of a childhood shaped by the dizzying racism that once drove him to the brink of murder. Using a poetic form that Moor calls jazz triptych—a tercet followed by a nonstandard villanelle, followed by a rhyme royal stanza—the book is a stunning rendering of a Black child moving through life with a smoldering anger emerging... Zobrazit více