Description
Poetry. African American Studies. "Mark McMorris's THE CAFÉ AT LIGHT is a beautiful book of poetry about some very ordinary events. Making the normal shimmer exercises the philosophical mind that informs every page. THE CAFÉ AT LIGHT respects the individuals too and makes us glad to know McMorris is out there linking past and present self and other in the most generous terms imaginable. Warning: The Surgeon General thinks this book may change you. THE CAFÉ AT LIGHT is a beautiful and original book. Mark McMorris has a genuinely cosmopolitan imagination—one that moves musically, and with rapidity and insight, from intimacy to our citizenship in the world and back—and he continually invents poetic forms that are adequate to his remarkable extension of poetry's domain.."—Susan Stewart
Author Bio
Born in Jamaica, Mark McMorris has won the Contemporary Poetry Series prize and has been a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He teaches at Georgetown University where he directs the Lannan Literary Programs.
Author City: WASHINGTON, DC USA