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A Fire in the Hills

by Afaa M. Weaver
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In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those revelations of sublimation of self gives way here to a material focus. The racial references are explicit as are the complexities of life lived as a Black man born in America in the mid-twentieth century. These are poems emanating from an attempt to follow Daoist philosophy for most of his life. Knowledge of other is in relation to knowledge of self, and self is an illusory continuum, a perspective wherein the poet embodies the transcendent arc of Malcolm X's life as credo.

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    April 11, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781636280837

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2023

      Weaver's latest collection (after Spirit Boxing) engages deeply with material reality, both present and past, as it dances among existential planes. Poems speak from and to multiple perspectives: a young girl pens a letter to Jeff Fort, basketballs chronicle the history of an aging sports star, gloriously alive language memorializes Richard Pryor, and a letter to Breonna Taylor intones, "May I see you in flight/ filling the space/ beyond clouds and stars." Poems range from the poet's adolescence in Baltimore to Vietnam to the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston ("In these clasped hands we hold the hope/ of another day, braided on strands of grief/ across what divides us, what makes us one"). Often grappling with violence, power, and injustice, particularly as experienced by Black communities in the United States, the poems also grapple with relationships and reinvention. The book is finely threaded with redefinitions of self and reclamations of joy from the tangled morass of interconnectedness, injustice, pain, hope, and beauty. "What names us?" asks one poem. "Who IS right? Not you," declares another. The collection's breadth is quietly captured in its closing meditation, the moving and expansive "God Is." VERDICT An accessible collection from a poet who continues to probe the past, present, and interconnectedness of being.--Amy Dickinson

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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