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Mahogany Moon: A Vintage Love - Ophelia Woods

Mahogany Moon: A Vintage Love

Ophelia Woods
Amazon Digital Services LLC , English
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Mahogany Moon is a collection of love poetry squeezed drip by drip from the poet's heart. It not only celebrates the ups and downs of love, but looks deeply at love through a mircoscope to get at the meaning of love and relationships.This book also probes other topics such as politics, religion and music. The collection tries to see the connections and disconnections between life and love and culture and race.The poems, while keenly aware of the African-American experience, also speak to universal themes, such as love, family, and hope. Drawing from the literary tradition of African Americans, Mahogany Moon continues the idea of Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Langston Hughes that everyday language and words are the most powerful means of communicating the refreshing and exhausting feeling that comes from love--romantic love and well as love of people.The book is divided into 5 chapters--love, church, jazz, advice, and experiments. The first chapter looks at love in all its forms. The second chapter "Good Church" seeks to explain and enjoy how Sunday morning makes all mornings worth the effort. The third chapter "The Jazz Series: Elder Digits" analyzes the notion that music is more than music. It is a code that hides the soul and pain and joy of a people oft belittled. It is a tool used to deomonstrate the genius of black America. Finally, the last chapter "Experiments" tests the limits of literary design. The author tries out his poetic license by using stream of counciousness, time travel, and creative nonfiction.

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