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by Angela Jackson


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Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry Angela Jackson brings her remarkable linguistic and poetic gifts to the articulation of African-American experience. The recurrent motif of the spider, which she presents as both creator and predator, demonstrates her deliberate reshaping of myth in the context of contemporary human experience. Informed by African-American speech and poetic traditions, yet uniquely her own, these poems display Jackson's stylistic grace, her exuberance and vitality of spirit, and her emotional sensitivity and psychological insight.

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  • Title Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners
  • Author Angela Jackson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First printing,
  • Pages 103
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Triquarterly Books, Evanston, IL
  • Date 1993
  • ISBN 9780810150010 / 0810150018
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.75 x 5.14 x 0.47 in (19.69 x 13.06 x 1.19 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects African American women, Spiders
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93026482
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 09/20/1993, Page 0

About the author

ANGELA JACKSON is a Chicago poet, playwright, and novelist. She was named Illinois Poet Laureate in 2020. She has received numerous honors for both fiction and poetry, including the Pushcart Prize and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Her poetry collection, All These Roads Be Luminous, was nominated for the National Book Award, and her debut novel, Where I Must Go, won the American Book Award. In addition to Comfort Stew, Jackson has written three other plays: Witness!, Shango Diaspora: An African-American Myth of Womanhood and Love, and Lightfoot: The Crystal Stair.
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