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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ai, 1947-2010.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : W.W. Norton, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (123 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	African American authors. African Americans -- Poetry. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Poetry. Poetry -- African American authors. African American women authors. African American authors. African American women authors. African Americans. Poetry.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12475720

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ISBN:	9780393244908 0393244903 0393041433 9780393041439 0393326195 9780393326192
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	Called "one of the most singular voices of her generation" by the New York Times Book Review, Ai is America's foremost poet of the dramatic monologue. In this new collection, she adopts the anguished voices of adults remembering traumatic events from their childhoods -- terrorism, war, sexual abuse, parental violence. These searing poems travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet's own bastard birth, as Ai delves deeply into the wounded psyches of her characters in their attempt to reach some kind of reconciliation with what is, ultimately, beyond reconciliation. Dread is a collection of ferocious bravery, conjuring purity as a distant memory and the knowledge of evil as an "infinite dark night."
Other form:	Print version: Ai, 1947-2010. Dread. First edition 0393041433

Table of Contents:

Dread 15
Delusion 22
Fairy Tale 29
Relativity 34
Family 39
The Saga of Charlie Smith 43
Disgrace 48
Greetings Friend 53
Grandfather Says 59
The Secret 61
Intercourse 66
True Love 69
Rude Awakening 72
Gender/Bender 75
Fifty-three 78
Passage 81
Lullaby 83
The Broker 85
The Calling 88
The White Homegirl 90
The Greenwood Cycle 92
The Psychic Detective: Identity 101
The Psychic Detective: Fantasy 105
The Psychic Detective: Divinity 109
The Psychic Detective: Destiny 113
The Psychic Detective: Infinity 118.