When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems

by A. Van Jordan

In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays--Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of Othello--to mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black children, at the hands of police officers. What do these characters, and the ways they are defined by the white figures who surround...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 132410516X
• ISBN13: 9781324105169
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 144 Pages