| Weightless Word: Selected Poems Contributor(s): Celestine, Alfred (Author), Miller, David (Editor), Leigh, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1848615280 ISBN-13: 9781848615281 Publisher: Shearsman Books OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Poetry | Lgbt |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.35 lbs) 118 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alfred Celestine died in London in 2009 at the age of 60. His work found only occasional publication during his lifetime, and always from small presses. This volume seeks to redress the balance and demonstrate the range of his work, using approximately a third of his total output to do so. As Jeremy Hilton said in a memorial feature in Fire magazine: ..".when I heard Celestine] read in London in 2007, ...I knew I was in the presence of a major, but little-recognised and little-published, poet. What struck me about him was a combination of his powerful use of language, the depth of emotion underlying the linguistic strictness, and his drawing on history, his own personal struggles and the way these interweaved with the struggle of black people as a nation to find their roots and their contemporary forms of expression. All this powerful stuff was, in Al Celestine's work, finding expression through a continuation of the modernist mode...." |
Contributor Bio(s): Celestine, Alfred: - Alfred Bernard Celestine Jr. was born on the 3rd of June 1949 in Los Angeles, California. He permanently left the U.S. around 1975 and went to live in West Berlin; he came to London in 1977 and remained there for the rest of his life. After a short illness Al (as he was known to friends and associates) passed away on 29th July 2009. An autopsy revealed the cause of death to be ischemic heart disease. |