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Highlights
- Poetry collection by Jamaican-born poet, creative writer, visual artist, and media professional.
- Author(s): Keisha Gaye Anderson
- 62 Pages
- Poetry, Caribbean & Latin American
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About the Book
Poetry collection by Jamaican-born poet, creative writer, visual artist, and media professional.Book Synopsis
Poetry collection by Jamaican-born poet, creative writer, visual artist, and media professional.
After graduating from Syracuse University (Newhouse and College of Arts and Science), Anderson began her career in television production at CBS News, where she worked as an associate producer for long-form documentaries like "A&E Biography." She went on to work as an associate producer for "NOW With Bill Moyers."
Her poetry and essays have appeared in a number of national literary magazines, journals, and anthologies.
Review Quotes
"Keisha-Gaye Anderson's Everything Is Necessary brings readers into the intimate heart of a Jamaican-American woman's complicated world. Her poetry explores the many ways in which the African Diaspora is carried within our bodies, on our tongues--from sufferings under enslavement to the precarity of modern American life. She uses migration stories and difficult family history to express the interplay of economic status, aspiration for something, anything better, harsh love, discipline, and courage. This is a necessary collection from a poet who is hitting her stride."
-- Patricia Spears Jones, author of A Lucent Fire and winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize
"Everything Is Necessary is a 'controlled explosion.' Anderson is not interested in tidy tales of familial fairytales or neatly packaged travesties--rather, the poet's journey is that of meditation, reincarnation, and ancestral lineage inside the portal of her DNA (remember, remember, remember)."
-- Anastacia Renée, author of (v.), Forget It, and Answer(Me)
"In Everything Is Necessary, Keisha-Gaye Anderson takes all the instruments at her disposal-- things to make music, things with which to cook, stones that have blocked her way, that have made her at times detour, and fashioned these into weapons, things to keep the enemy at bay, spikes to line the wall, to give us time while we work this freedom into recognizable, familiar, manageable form, to give the refugee a home, at last, to help us recognize brother and sister, whatever state they come to us in. Go with her. She is determined to find a way."
-- Mervyn Taylor, author of Voices Carry