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JAMES CAGNEY was born in Oakland, California in 1968. He studied writing and poetry independently, via the public library, workshops, and the abundant open mic scene in the Bay Area. Cagney is a Cave Canem fellow and has performed in many venues, museums, and programs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as Sacramento, Vancouver, Chicago, and Seattle. He is the author of Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory, winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and his newest book, MARTIAN- The Saint of Loneliness, is the winner of the 2021 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
This is a book to savor, a book you'll want to read out loud so you can roll its words around your mouth and taste its many flavors. Its 'juke joint of hot broth,' its 'witchcraft of memory,' its 'razorblade blues,' 'dense, funky collards,' and 'star-field of skin' will make you holler with Cagney in his rage, weep with his sadness, gasp in ecstasy, while sharing spaces of an enduring loneliness blended with a hardknowing earned while maintaining compassion and love. You can feast on his images which are at once surreal and down home, steeped in the real and laughing, along with the imagined and remembered. This is a spread of poetry serving history, mythology, memoir, and current events. It is a deeply personal and profoundly universal banquet served in an embracing black that holds inside all the world's colors and shadings. -devorah major, San Francisco's 3rd Poet Laureate
The Penguin Book of Elegy
Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation...
Paperback
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