![]() ![]() ![]() The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems gives us a substantial playlist of new work-hard-hitting and big-hearted-along with ample selections from his first four books. The son of Filipino immigrants, Patrick Rosal has made a life of bridging worlds-literary, ethnic, national, spiritual-through his poetry, and has been recognized with some of poetry’s highest honors and by countless devoted readers. ![]() ![]() With powerful depictions of the bonds formed between fighting men and heartrending scenes of sacrifice and courage, Black Cloud Rising offers a compelling and nuanced portrait of enslaved men and women crossing the threshold to freedom. Black Cloud Rising centers a little-known historical episode, but a dramatic and moving account of soldiers who only weeks earlier had been enslaved but were now Union infantrymen setting out to fight their former owners. The story of the African Brigade, a unit of Black freedmen who fought for the Union during the Civil War, gets its due in David Wright Faladé’s work. This is a virtual-only program hosted via City of Asylum HomeĪward winning writers Patrick Rosal and David Wright Faladé join us in virtual conversation to celebrate the launch of their new works, Faladé’s novel Black Cloud Rising and Rosal’s poetry collection The Last Thing. ![]()
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