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Will Alexander

    Will Alexander est un poète, romancier, essayiste, dramaturge et artiste visuel de premier plan. Son œuvre se caractérise par une exploration profonde du langage et de la culture, abordant souvent les thèmes de l'identité et de l'histoire. Le style unique d'Alexander fusionne des techniques modernistes avec des traditions africaines et afro-américaines, créant des vers remarquablement complexes et riches en sonorités. Son écriture est célébrée pour sa profondeur intellectuelle alliée à une puissante résonance émotionnelle.

    Refractive Africa
    Call Me Jonah
    Divine Blue Light (For John Coltrane)
    Mr. Grumpy Gets His Wish
    Dialogics
    Asia & Haiti
    • 2023
    • 2023

      Call Me Jonah

      • 140pages
      • 5 heures de lecture

      Life doesn't end. Reality isn't fixed. Time doesn't work the way you think. Even the universe, despite its size, is surprisingly aware of and attuned to each of us. Then come those moments when all boundaries dissolve, worlds merge, and we are given glimpses into how connected everything is. Call Me Jonah is the story of an ordinary man who experiences such extraordinary moments starting in childhood and then continue throughout his lifetime. Afraid of ridicule, he keeps hidden what he learns from each mystical encounter for decades. Until a random meeting with street prophet ultimately convinces him to share his journey and the remarkable insights acquired along the way. Only God could write a story so touching as this through the words of Will Alexander. -- Courtney Force, author of Soul Dancer

      Call Me Jonah
    • 2021

      A career-defining collection from one of America's most significant poets, never before published in the UK.

      Refractive Africa
    • 2020

      Dialogics

      • 30pages
      • 2 heures de lecture

      The Dialogics remains an investigation that blazes with insight. Heller Levinson and Will Alexander condense dialogue to such a degree that its internal beacon dazzles with ideas. They spontaneously retain natural inevitability igniting idea after idea so that they seem to blur and then crystallize ad infinitum. This brief book of condensed insight seems always to conjoin with the reader not through didactic engendering but via lingual spell that is vertiginous by nature and so by its power of verbal irrigation leaves internal identity powerfully cleansed.

      Dialogics
    • 2020

      Mr. Grumpy Gets His Wish

      • 38pages
      • 2 heures de lecture

      Exploring the complexities of global population dynamics, this book delves into the implications of rapid population growth and its effects on resources, environment, and social structures. It examines historical trends, current challenges, and future projections, highlighting the interconnectedness of population issues with economic development and sustainability. Engaging case studies and expert insights provide a comprehensive understanding of how population changes shape our world and the urgent need for informed policy responses.

      Mr. Grumpy Gets His Wish
    • 1995

      Asia & Haiti

      • 144pages
      • 6 heures de lecture
      4,3(33)Évaluer

      Asia & Haiti presents two long poems by Los Angeles poet Will Alexander, which, in the broadest sense, are about the cultures, economics, politics, history, and social concerns of the title regions.Alexander's poetry presents a remarkable re-writing of a history. Caught up in the vortex of a surrealist vision and tornadoes of language, his words call up an American equivalent of Aime Cesaire.

      Asia & Haiti