Rails Under My Back by Jeffery Renard Allen

‘Be careful’: Caution outdoors is urged as California wildlife surges.pot farms infected with ‘severe’ pathogen Horoscope for Saturday, 5/27/23 by Christopher Renstrom.It moves back and forth across time and geography with a visionary cinematic focus that translates itself word by word into powerful, grand yet sometimes stinging images. With each sentence, Allen stretches his writing to its imaginative limits, making 'Rails Under My Back' big and ambitious, picaresque and beautiful, a book that demands of the reader as much as it gives in return. This is prose of a rich and unpredictable quality. In step with the flowing sweep of her garments, an undercurrent of rhythm, she cut the final strings of attachment, her children, and on a rich spring day cut a red path to New Mexico. On the first page - and on all subsequent pages - of Allen's first novel, 'Rails Under My Back,' the reader finds this kind of lyrical prose: '. Such self-consciously literary writing has rarely been seen among African American writers since Jean Toomer's 'Cane' in the 1920s. Allen, for example, while still mindful of his literary heritage, writes prose with the sensitivity and cadence of a poet. Verdekkem, Danzy Senna, Randall Kenan, Edwidge Danticat, Carolyn Ferrell and Jeffery Renard Allen - speak with an authority all their own. The most recent generation - including writers such as Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Colson Whitehead, Thomas Glave, John Keene, A.J. It also has greater aesthetic diversity and involves more than two generations of writers.

Unlike the brief Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, this one has staying power, partly due to the present economic prosperity of the country. Modern renaissance of African American literature has been in progress and gaining momentum for more than 20 years now. Jeffery Renard Allen Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Rails Under My Back by Jeffery Renard Allen