Quincy Troupe

Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

If we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what would they say? Award-winning poet Quincy Troupe, spokesman for the humanizing forces of poetry, music, and art, parts the Atlantic and rattles the ground built on slavery with Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 127mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 92g
• ISBN-13: 9780810138995
• ISBN-10: 0810138999
• Artikelnr.: 51968500

Autorenporträt

QUINCY TROUPE is the author of nine volumes of poetry, three children's books, and the author, coauthor, or editor of six nonfiction works. He collaborated with Miles Davis on his autobiography and with Chris Gardner on The Pursuit of Happyness, which spent more than forty weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and was made into a major motion picture starring Will Smith. Troupe has also written a screenplay for Miles and Me, the memoir of his friendship with Miles Davis. Poetry collections include Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 2003 Milt Kessler Poetry Award and selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best books of poetry in 2002; The Architecture of Language, winner of the 2007 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement; and Errançities, published in 2012.