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High Desert, Naffis-Sahely, André, Very Good condition, Book
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- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Book Title
- High Desert
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- 2022
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- Poetry
- Topic
- American / General
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- Number of Pages
- 80 Pages
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High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wildfire epidemic, Naffis-Sahely's reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the region's hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the recent pandemic.
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Bloodaxe Books
ISBN-10
1780376200
ISBN-13
9781780376202
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25057251747
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Book Title
High Desert
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Language
English
Topic
American / General
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
80 Pages
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Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
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Pr6114
Reviews
'As landscapes go, deserts are more interchangeable than most, and Naffis-Sahely's visions of dereliction are eerily arid and universal at once. Identities are layered one on top of another as the poet moves from continent to continent... This is fierce writing too: litanies of the lost, dispatches from desperate outposts and borders... in an inert and supine world, these are impeccably upright poems.' - David Wheatley, The Guardian (best recent poetry round-up), "André Naffis-Sahely's High Desert radically presents an intensive record of capitalism's complex forms of local and global enslavements, each poem skillfully and precisely formed, emotionally charged, and morally infused with an acute sense of justice. High Desert places Naffis-Sahely among our most indispensable poets, those who, throughout history, testify to the truths of poetry against the lies of violent, destructive, corrupt, oligarchic power."-- Lawrence Joseph, author of A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems (FSG, 2020), 'André Naffis-Sahely's second collection from Bloodaxe is really fantastic, a collection called High Desert . It's really deeply engaged with history, class, race, nationalism, particularly focused on the American Southwest, where he's spent some time living. He's quite an itinerant poet, who's travelled around, and I think that can often add a different dimension to a poet's writing.' - Ben Wilkinson, speaking on The Seren Poetry Podcast, "André Naffis-Sahely's High Desert radically presents an intensive record of capitalism's complex forms of local and global enslavements, each poem skillfully and precisely formed, emotionally charged, and morally infused with an acute sense of justice. High Desert places Naffis-Sahely among our most indispensable poets, those who, throughout history, testify to the truths of poetry against the lies of violent, destructive, corrupt, oligarchic power."--Lawrence Joseph, author of A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems (FSG, 2020), "Naffis-Sahely's desert is a space for reckoning. Not many poets have the courage to begin a book with a poem titled 'The Last Communist', in praise of a wounded and much-needed, though endangered species of thinker and doer in these acquisitive times. He reminds us of the work that poetry can do when properly deployed."--Fred D'Aguiar, leading British poet, 'It's been a long time since I enjoyed a collection of poetry as much as André Naffis-Sahely's new offering, High Desert . That said, 'enjoy' isn't quite the mot juste, for while there is at times dark humour here, these are unapologetically serious poems about serious subjects. Perhaps it's better to say I was affected and struck by their moral backbone and searing honesty, than merely entertained... these are poems of remarkable moral heft and power, that demand to be given their place in our imaginations.' - Richie McCaffery, Wild Court, 'The globe-trotting André Naffis-Sahely's High Desert is worth tracking down for its compelling central sequence of found poems resurrecting figures from American history.' - Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph (the 20 best poetry books of 2022), 'The second collection from Naffis-Sahely (The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life) celebrates the desert landscapes of the Southwest while highlighting devastating and complex historical moments, among them the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Divided into five sections, the poems establish their concerns and motifs across shifting cities, while blending personal and political history... Naffis-Sahely offers a fresh approach to weaving reportage and confession in this absorbing travelogue.' - Publishers Weekly, 'The precision of the writing in André Naffis-Sahely's new collection of poems gives a laser focus to a vision it's tempting to call global... History writing, travel writing, journalism - High Desert braids together strands of all these genres without ceding its status as poetic utterance... Naffis-Sahely joins an international cohort of poets - Marilyn Hacker, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Lawrence Joseph and Ilya Kaminsky among them - who are courageously facing ruin without succumbing to silence or despair. Their work isn't easy to read. But it is well worth reading.' - Rachel Hadas, Times Literary Supplement, 'André Naffis-Sahely's compelling and deeply researched second collection begins in California but blossoms into a globally engaged meditation on history, migration, inclusion, and justice. Drawing on found text from diaries to academic manuscripts and traversing across North America, Europe, and Asia, High Desert is at once humble and unafraid.' - Maggie Wong, Poetry Book Society Bulletin , Summer 2022, "Naffis-Sahely's desert is a space for reckoning. Not many poets have the courage to begin a book with a poem titled 'The Last Communist', in praise of a wounded and much-needed, though endangered species of thinker and doer in these acquisitive times. He reminds us of the work that poetry can do when properly deployed."--Fred D'Aguiar, 'The second collection from Naffis-Sahely ( The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life ) celebrates the desert landscapes of the Southwest while highlighting devastating and complex historical moments, among them the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Divided into five sections, the poems establish their concerns and motifs across shifting cities, while blending personal and political history... Naffis-Sahely offers a fresh approach to weaving reportage and confession in this absorbing travelogue.' - Publishers Weekly, "Naffis-Sahely's desert is a space for reckoning. Not many poets have the courage to begin a book with a poem titled 'The Last Communist', in praise of a wounded and much-needed, though endangered species of thinker and doer in these acquisitive times. He reminds us of the work that poetry can do when properly deployed."-- Fred D'Aguiar, leading British poet
Table of Content
I: PEREGRINATIONS 11 The Last Communist 13 The Other Side of Nowhere 15 Folie à trois 16 Nova Atlantis 17 Spaghetti Westerns 19 Montricher 20 Young Romantics 21 Chittagong 22 Ierapetra 23 The Train to St Petersburg 25 Ode to the Errant KingII: THE CITY OF ANGELS 29 Welcome to America 30 The Year of One Thousand Fires 32 Maybe The People Don't Want to Live and Let Live 34 The Bond 36 El Molino Viejo 38 RancherosIII: HIGH DESERT 43 Roadrunners 45 At the Graves of Labour's Fallen 47 [IWW leaet, 1919] 48 Spanish Flu 49 Memorial Day 50 The Great Molasses Disaster 51 Down to Tucson 52 High DesertIV: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE WEST 57 Pablo Tac 58 Mary Ellen Pleasant 59 Article Nineteen 60 Denis Kearney 61 Wong Chin Foo 62 Ricardo Flores Magón 63 Louise Bryant 64 Buck Colbert Franklin 65 Art Shields 66 George S. Patton 67 John Samuelson 68 Muriel Rukeyser 69 Richard M. NixonV: CODA 73 Tule Fog 79 Notes
Copyright Date
2022
Lccn
2022-361737
Dewey Decimal
821/.92
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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