The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems

by Marilyn Nelson

Book Overview

Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and social perspective. A cab ride turns into an amazing encounter with the driver, an amateur physicist whose ideas about space and time travel spark the poet's musings on chutzpah and artistic ambition. A trip to Triolet, a Creole village in the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius, leads the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807130648
• ISBN13: 9780807130643
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"