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Amazon.com Review"you might say i have / this peculiar fascination / with the dead," admits Brenda Marie Osbey in All Saints, her American Book Award-winning collection of poems. As a New Orleans native speaking through historical Creole characters, she celebrates the ways the dead maintain a living presence in New Orleans, whether in their above-ground tombs, in religious hoodoo ancestor worship, or in bricks from an old slave factory in the Treme fauborg--a New Orleans usage for "neighborhood," as Osbey's extensive glossary explains. The glossary, like Eliot's notes on "The Wasteland," stands as an interesting document itself; using it isn't necessary to understand the poem, however. Spoken by characters from throughout New Orleans history, the poems understandably vary in tone and appeal. Osbey's style is accessible. Idiosyncrasies such as the absence of capital letters fade into the background once a reader tunes in to the poems' compelling dramatic situations: a desperate dialogue with Coffin Street's prophetic Mother Catherine, a prayer from San Malo for his maroon colony, an heartfelt open letter about the evening news to singer Nina Simone. Like Jonathan Swift's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" and other formal verse satires, Osbey's poems stack their grievances and observations on top of each other until, near the end, the tone breaks and she utters terribly moving truths--"the night is a bastard gleaming"--before cooling down. Osbey's book details family relationships, community life, and the struggle for redemption. This struggle is laid bare in "The Head of Luis Congo," a sequential poem about the beheading of Congo, a free black man hired in 1726 as keeper of the road along Bayou St. John, a route favored by escaping slaves. The poem's interplay between confession and braggadocio is a testament to Osbey's skill as a storyteller; the reader damns and pities Congo simultaneously. The book's title refers to the New Orleans custom of whitewashing tombs on All Saints' Day, and at her best, Osbey gives us a chance to observe how life and death intertwine. --Edward Skoog All Saints : New and Selected Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey ... All Saints : New and Selected Poems (Brenda Marie Osbey) at Booksamillion.com. ... More About All Saints by Brenda Marie Osbey . Overview Details Customer Reviews All Saints: New and Selected Poems: Osbey Brenda Marie ... All Saints: New and Selected Poems by Osbey Brenda Marie available in Trade Paperback on Powells.com ... All Saints by Brenda Marie Osbey. LSU Press :: Books - All Saints In All Saints we come to believe the dead do live ... including All Saints: New and Selected Poems and History and Other Poems. For more information on the author ... All Saints: New and Selected Poems book by Brenda Marie ... All Saints: New and Selected Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey starting at $1.27. All Saints: New and Selected Poems has 2 available editions to buy at Alibris. 0807121983 - All Saints: New and Selected Poems by Osbey ... All Saints: New and Selected Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey and a great selection of similar Used New and Collectible Books ... New and Selected Poems by Osbey Brenda ... All Saints: New and Selected Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey ... All Saints has 19 ratings and 0 reviews. Like the feast day recalled in its title ... Start by marking All Saints: New and Selected Poems as Want to Read: A Litany Of Friends New And Selected Poems PDF ... famil All saints new and selected poems pdf all saints new and selected poems pdf a litany of A All saints : new and selected poems (Book 1997) [WorldCat ... All saints : new and selected poems. [Brenda Marie Osbey] Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for ... : All Saints: New and Selected Poems ... Buy All Saints: New and Selected Poems on FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders : Customer Reviews: All Saints: New and Selected ... All Saints: New and Selected Poems ...
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