The Albuquerque Graveyard (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jay Wright
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, History, Family or family life, Africa or Africans, Creation myth, Racism, Multiculturalism, New Mexico, Cemeteries, Graves
“The Albuquerque Graveyard” comes from the middle section of Wright's third book, Soothsayers and Omens, a volume that marks his first steps toward defining a spiritual order and his place in it. In these poems, Wright explores African creation myths that have become a part of the cross-cultural collective memory. Using this new perspective, he revisits the Mexico and New Mexico of his earlier work.
“The Albuquerque Graveyard” is typical of the transitional poems in the second and third parts of the four-part volume. In it, the poet returns to a cemetery he has...
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