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There Is an Anger That Moves
Kei Miller
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Description for There Is an Anger That Moves
Paperback. "There is an Anger That Moves" is written by a poet from the Caribbean. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 7. Weight in Grams: 110. 80 pages. "There is an Anger That Moves" is written by a poet from the Caribbean. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 7. Weight: 110.
The six sequences of "There Is an Anger that Moves" travel from Jamaica to England and back. A mother's heart is broken; men fall in love secretly; people dance until they die. Religion haunts these disbelieving poems which move sometimes to the measure of a hymn, sometimes to the cadence of a Baptist sermon. Each swells with its own conviction, even when that conviction is doubt. Miller makes us believe in the power of unexpected things: the colour orange, broken coffins, ice cream - and in the transforming power of poetry. From this book, Kei Miller emerges as one of ... Read more
The six sequences of "There Is an Anger that Moves" travel from Jamaica to England and back. A mother's heart is broken; men fall in love secretly; people dance until they die. Religion haunts these disbelieving poems which move sometimes to the measure of a hymn, sometimes to the cadence of a Baptist sermon. Each swells with its own conviction, even when that conviction is doubt. Miller makes us believe in the power of unexpected things: the colour orange, broken coffins, ice cream - and in the transforming power of poetry. From this book, Kei Miller emerges as one of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
109g
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857549454
SKU
V9781857549454
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-6
About Kei Miller
Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. He read English at the University of the West Indies, and did an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan. His first collection of short fiction, The Fear of Stones, was short-listed in 2007 for a Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize. He is also the author of a poetry collection, Kingdom of ... Read more
Reviews for There Is an Anger That Moves
'Raise high the roofbeams, here comes a strong new presence in poetry...Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.' - Lorna Goodison.'Some of the most exciting poetry I've read in years. Radiant utterance that speaks of island experiences and gender politics from a deep well of understanding, ... Read more