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Synopsis
Much of First Light is autobiographical, a young boy growing into urban manhood; it's a book of family, of strangers, of learning to tell time by the people that populated E. Ethelbert Miller's life. He has populated his work with mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and lovers who fight daily to be able to do simple things like drink clean water and sleep without gunshots interrupting their dreams. He takes instruction from Pablo Neruda, Margaret Walker, political prisoners and finds inspiration in the aloneness of Winnie Mandela. Mostly, it is a book of love, personal and cultural. It's silences are penetrating, its insights are liberating, its violence is quieting and its love is contagious.
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."..E. Ethelbert Miller has chosen for his subjects those unseen 'American moments' of everyday life. His poetry is smooth, without being facile, deep, deep, yet clear, real, very surreal." — Ishamel Reed
"Don't just read it! Make the journey! Poems like telescoping eyes, looking and screaming for answers about he whys of the world, and how to be whole on the journey!" —Bernice Johnson Reagon
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First Light: New and Selected Poems
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Black Classic Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0933121814
ISBN 13: 9780933121812
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First Light: New and Selected Poems
Published by
Black Classic Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0933121814
ISBN 13: 9780933121812
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
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First Light: New and Selected Poems
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Black Classic Press (edition First Edition), 1993
ISBN 10: 0933121814
ISBN 13: 9780933121812
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First Light: New and Selected Poems
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First Light : New and Selected Poems
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FIRST LIGHT. New and Selected Poems.
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DuForcelf Books / Black Classic Press, Baltimore, 1994
ISBN 10: 0933121814
ISBN 13: 9780933121812
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Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. INSCRIBED " . in friendship and love, Ethelbert, 10/94." Includes many autobiographical poems - Ishmael Reed says that he has "chosen for his subject those 'unseen moments' of ordinary American life. 194 pp. Name inside front cover, slight wear to covers, overall very good in glossy illustrated wrappers. Seller Inventory # 65718
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First Light: New and Selected Poems
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Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Seller Inventory # Q-0933121814