A Little Bump in the Earth by Tyree Daye

A Little Bump in the Earth

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A Little Bump in the Earth

Copper Canyon Press

A Little Bump in the Earth

by Tyree Daye

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Through invention and remembrance, a little bump in the earth creates a black town on a hill--its land, its losses, its living and ancestral dead.

Tyree Daye's a little bump in the earth is an act of invention and remembrance. Through sprawling poems, the town of Youngsville, North Carolina, where Daye's family has lived for the last 200 years, is reclaimed as "Ritual House." Here, "every cousin aunt uncle ghost" is welcome. Daye invokes real and imagined people, the ancestral dead, land, snakes, and chickens, to create a black town on a hill. Including dreams, letters, revised rental agreements, and "a little museum in the here & after," where collaged images appear besides documents from Daye's ancestors--census records, marriage licenses, and WWII Draft Registration cards--the collection asks if the past can be a portal to the future, the present a catalyst for the past. a little bump in the earth explores what it means to love someone, someplace, even as it changes, dies right in front of your eyes. Poem by poem, Daye is honoring the people of Youngsville and "bringing back the dead."
Book Details
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN:
9781556596889
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
104
Authors:
Tyree Daye
Published Date:
2024-04-02
Language:
English
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About Tyree Daye

Winner of the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for River Hymns, Tyree Daye grew up in Youngsville, North Carolina, and earned a BA and MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. Now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he also co-edits poetry at Callaloo. Cardinal and a little bump in the earth, his later collections, appeared from Copper Canyon Press in 2020 and 2024. A Cave Canem fellow, Daye received a 2019 Whiting Award and held the Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence post at UC Santa Barbara. Also a finalist for the Kate Tufts and Paterson poetry prizes, he guest-edited the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series in January 2023.

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