TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daye,Tyree
TI  - Cardinal
SN  - 1556595735 (pbk.) 
AV  - PS3604 .A9884 D394 2020
U1  - 811/.6 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Port Townsend, Washington
PB  - Copper Canyon Press
KW  - African American families
KW  - Poetry
KW  - African American men
KW  - African Americans
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Homecoming
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Racism
KW  - United States
KW  - Spoken word poetry
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 55); Field Notes on Leaving -- By Land -- Miss Mary Mack Introduces Her Wings -- Where She Planted Hydrangeas -- The Mechanical Cotton Picker -- Ode to Small Towns -- I Wanted to Place an Ocean -- Ode to Sex -- Oceans on Either Side of Me -- Inheritance -- To: All Poets -- From: Northeastern North Carolina -- When I Left -- Which Ever Way -- How Do You Get to Harlem? -- Ode to the City -- Green Thumbed -- God's Work -- Miss Mary Mack Considers God -- The Motorcycle Queen -- The World Grows -- Would You Miss Me? -- Ode to a Common Clothes Moth -- Leave Yourself All Over -- The Shape of God -- Find Me -- I Don't Know What Happens to Fields -- From Which I Flew -- Undreamed (Mother's Voice) -- Miss Mary Mack Realizes Flying Is Just Running with Wings -- On Finding a Field -- Miles and Miles above My Head -- Carry Me -- Field Notes on Beginning
N2  - "Tyree Daye's Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic 'Green Book'-the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images of Daye's family and upbringing, which have been deliberately blurred, it also serves as an imperfect family album. Cardinal traces the South's burdened interiors and the interiors of a Black male protagonist attempting to navigate his many departures and returns home-a place that could both lovingly rear him and coolly annihilate him. With the language of elegy and praise, intoning regional dialect and a deliberately disruptive cadence, Daye carries the voices of ancestors and blues poets, while stretching the established zones of the Black American vernacular. In tones at once laden and magically transforming, he self-consciously plots his own Great Migration: 'if you see me dancing a two step/I'm sending a starless code/we're escaping everywhere.' These are poems to be read aloud." --publisher's website
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