The Fire This Time - by Jesmyn Ward (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this ... collection of essays and poems about race from ... voices of her generation and our time"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The <i>New York Times </i>bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race--collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation--are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. <i>The Fire This Time </i>is vivid proof that words are important, because of their power to both cleanse and to clarify" (<i>USA TODAY</i>).</b> <p/>In this bestselling, widely lauded collection, Jesmyn Ward gathers our most original thinkers and writers to speak on contemporary racism and race, including Carol Anderson, Jericho Brown, Edwidge Danticat, Kevin Young, Claudia Rankine, and Honoree Jeffers. "An absolutely indispensable anthology" (<i>Booklist</i>, starred review), <i>The Fire This Time</i> shines a light on the darkest corners of our history, wrestles with our current predicament, and imagines a better future. <p/> Envisioned as a response to <i>The Fire Next Time</i>, James Baldwin's groundbreaking 1963 essay collection, these contemporary writers reflect on the past, present, and future of race in America. We've made significant progress in the fifty-odd years since Baldwin's essays were published, but America is a long and painful distance away from a "post-racial society"--a truth we must confront if we are to continue to work towards change. Baldwin's "fire next time" is now upon us, and it needs to be talked about; <i>The Fire This Time</i> "seeks to place the shock of our own times into historical context and, most importantly, to move these times forward" (<i>Vogue</i>).<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, and the Strauss Living Prize. She is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction for <i>Sing, Unburied, Sing</i> (2017) and <i>Salvage the Bones</i> (2011). She is also the author of the novel <i>Where the Line Bleeds</i> and the memoir <i>Men We Reaped, </i> which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi
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