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    A Fire in the Hills
    A Fire in the Hills
    A Fire in the Hills
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    A Fire in the Hills

    By Afaa M. Weaver

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    In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those revelations of sublimation of self gives way here to a material focus. The racial references are explicit as are the complexities of life lived as a Black man born in America in the mid-twentieth century. These are poems emanating from an attempt to follow Daoist philosophy for most of his life. Knowledge of other is in relation to knowledge of self, and self is an illusory continuum, a perspective wherein the poet embodies the transcendent arc of Malcolm X’s life as credo.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Hen Press
    Release dateApr 11, 2023
    ISBN9781636280837
    A Fire in the Hills
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    Afaa M. Weaver

    Afaa Weaver’s many poetry collections include The Plum Flower Trilogy and Spirit Boxing, and he is the author of many plays, including Berea. Weaver currently resides in Pleasant Valley, New York.

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      A Fire in the Hills - Afaa M. Weaver

      A Fire in the Hills

      Copyright © 2023 by Afaa M. Weaver

      All Rights Reserved

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.

      Book layout by Rebeccah Sanhueza

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951– author.

      Title: A fire in the hills: poems / Afaa M. Weaver.

      Description: First Edition. | Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, [2023]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2022026558 (print) | LCCN 2022026559 (ebook) | ISBN 9781636280820 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781636281025 (paperback) | ISBN 9781636280837 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

      Classification: LCC PS3573.E1794 F57 2023 (print) | LCC PS3573.E1794 (ebook) | DDC 811/.54—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022026558

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022026559

      Publication of this book has been made possible in part through the generous financial support of Francesca Bell.

      The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Meta & George Rosenberg Foundation, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, the Adams Family Foundation, Amazon Literary Partnership, the Sam Francis Foundation, and the Mara W. Breech Foundation partially support Red Hen Press.

      First Edition

      Published by Red Hen Press

      www.redhen.org

      Acknowledgments

      Poems in this collection have appeared in the following journals and anthologies.

      5AM, Academy of American Poets, American Poetry Now, American Poetry Review, African American Review, Black Imagination, Chicory, Ibbetson Street, joINT, Jubilat, Somerville News, The Hopkins Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, and The Pushcart Anthology.

      for

      Loretta Miller

      CONTENTS

      Notes As Our Dead Seek Justice

      I

      In a Border Town

      All American

      My First Gun

      Math Lesson

      Shotgun

      My History Homework, Mr. Jeff Fort

      Blues in Five/Four, the Violence in Chicago

      Game of Losing, 1968

      The Sirens of Saigon

      Requiem for the Coupe De Ville

      A Poem for Freddie Gray, Baltimore

      What a Fellowship

      An Elegy for Lucille Clifton

      II

      What Is Left

      The Great Foot

      What Elizabeth Bishop Could Not Know

      Proposition Joe, from the Grave

      Charleston

      Jobs or Not, the Hustle

      When We Are Truck Drivers

      The N Line to Brooklyn

      Good Uncles

      The Shaw Brothers

      Richard Pryor Is Dead

      All Ghosts Rise, Black Theater

      Inosculation, an Ode to Walt Whitman

      III

      A South Carolina State of Nation Mind

      Midnight Air in Louisville

      This Civil War Yet Unresolved

      When the Slavers Died at Sea

      Back Spin of Hope

      When I Think of Vietnam

      Sacred

      To Malcolm X On His Second Coming

      Ephemera

      God Is

      Standing to America, bringing home

      black gold, black ivory, black seed.

      from "Middle Passage"

      by Robert Hayden

      NOTES AS OUR DEAD SEEK JUSTICE

      Let another world be born …

      —Margaret Walker

      In the video, two pairs of eyes

      two positions of power, all and none,

      or all and then the none of losing it all

      where soulless cops go when

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