Much of First Light is autobiographical, a young boy growing into urban manhood; it's a book of family, of strangers, of learning to tell time by the people that populated E. Ethelbert Miller's life. He has populated his work with mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and lovers who fight daily to be able to do simple things like drink clean water and sleep without gunshots interrupting their dreams. He takes instruction from Pablo Neruda, Margaret Walker, political prisoners and finds inspiration in the aloneness of Winnie Mandela. Mostly, it is a book of love, personal and cultural. It's silences are penetrating, its insights are liberating, its violence is quieting and its love is contagious.
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...E. Ethelbert Miller has chosen for his subjects those unseen 'American moments' of everyday life. His poetry is smooth, without being facile, deep, deep, yet clear , real, very surreal. --Ishamel Reed
Don't just read it! Make the journey! Poems like telescoping eyes, looking and screaming for answers about he whys of the world, and how to be whole on the journey! --Bernice Johnson Reagon
...It is a book of love, personal and cultural, He travels in and out of love, but we do not feel any loss here. We feel that his loveships grow into friendships and whatever the outcome, family remains. --Haki R. Mahhubuti --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Don't just read it! Make the journey! Poems like telescoping eyes, looking and screaming for answers about he whys of the world, and how to be whole on the journey! --Bernice Johnson Reagon
...It is a book of love, personal and cultural, He travels in and out of love, but we do not feel any loss here. We feel that his loveships grow into friendships and whatever the outcome, family remains. --Haki R. Mahhubuti --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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the message is love...,
This review is from: First Light: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
he can say more in 5 lines than some writers can say in 500 pages. reading his poems will make you feel good, no matter how bad your day has been.
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