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The American Poet Who Went Home Again is a book of creative nonfiction that blends memoir, literary journalism, history, and biography to tell the story of one writer's rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself. It is composed of four sections containing collectively some twenty chapters and three introductory poems for a total of more than 300 memorable pages with guest appearances by several very special authors. This is a work of true literary art filled show more with reports from the author's personal spiritual journey and profiles of unforgettable men and women. show lessTags
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The American Poet Who Went Home Again will make me do something I never do--I will re-read this soul-exploring book again and maybe again.
Going home is never easy, but Aberjhani examines the journey from all angles and decides the difficulty is what he treasures...
Going home is never easy, but Aberjhani examines the journey from all angles and decides the difficulty is what he treasures...
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I love this marvelous book and recommend it, with pleasure, to one and all. Mr Aberjhani's voice should be heard around the world. He is an extraordinarily gifted writer...
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- Canonical title
- The American Poet Who Went Home Again
- Original title
- The American Poet Who Went Home Again
- Original publication date
- 2008-04
- People/Characters
- Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-Yehu; Jerry P. Bolton (author-poet); Abigail Jordan (civil rights activist); Jack Leigh (photographer); Moran (family of Harris Neck, Georgia); Alexandria Onelight (author and poet) (show all 11); Joseph Onelight (poet and photographer); Eugene Talmadge (former Georgia Governor); Luther E. Vann (artist); Wilson Moran; Mary Moran
- Important places
- Alaska, USA; Georgia, USA; Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Savannah, Georgia, USA; United Kingdom (show all 8); USA; Harris Neck, Georgia USA
- Important events
- The History That Peace Made (2003-01-15); Expulsion of African Americans from Harris Neck, Georgia; Establishment of African-American Family Monument on River Street in Savannah, GA; 1997 Publication of I Made My Boy Out of Poetry; 2003 Publication of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance by Aberjhani and Sandra L. West
- Related movies
- The 1619 Project (2023 | IMDb)
- Epigraph
- “I have come out of that landscape, that mud, that silence, to roam, to go singing through the world.”
––Pablo Neruda, Memoirs - Dedication
- In tribute to Jack Leigh (1948-2004) exemplary artist and spiritual visionary.
- First words
- Why did I automatically agree with the American author Thomas Wolfe, who was from North Carolina, when I read the title of his classic book, You Can’t Go Home Again?
- Quotations
- Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace e... (show all)nds with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain i... (show all)n darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In addition to the previously noted awards, Aberjhani is also the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Journalism Award, the Creative Loafing Critic’s Pick Best Savannah Author Award, the Savannah Literary Journal Best of Publication/Irene Tromble Award, and the Connect Savannah 2006 Poet and Spoken Word Artist of the Year Award.
- Original language
- English US
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
