The garden
Subtitle: a poem and an essay
By: A.F. Moritz
Publisher: Gordon Hill Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Guelph, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781774220382
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992; Literary collections; African Americans; Social conditions; Racism; Race relations
Work titles: Works
Description: ""The Garden" by A. F. Moritz is a passionate denunciation of injustice, especially as seen in the violent injustice directed to the African diaspora in North America, both from many individual members of the general citizenry, and through the legislative, police, and judicial institutions that express the citizenry. The book is epic, lyrical, and analytical. It is uniquely comprised of a long poem, "The Garden in the Midst", and an in-depth essay, "The Poet's Garden". Each centers on the South Central Los Angeles "riot" of 1992 in response to the not guilty verdict on police officers video-ed badly beating Rodney King in 1991. From this central point, the poem and essay reach out to embrace the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd, and the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, and the long history of legalized criminal repression these two deaths belong to."--
Notes: Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: The garden in the midst; title: The poet's garden.