Village

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By LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

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Village is a boundary-pushing poetry collection and soundscape by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs that explores memory, grief, and estrangement through dark humour and sharp observation. Using inventive verse and language drawn from multiple tongues, Diggs examines the impact of trauma on lineage, language, and family reconciliation. The book confronts who is remembered publicly, challenges classist narratives, and imagines new rites and monuments, portraying the hidden labours of care across places from Harlem to North Carolina. It offers a powerful meditation on survival amid poverty's dystopia.
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Village will resonate with readers interested in contemporary poetry that challenges form and language, those drawn to explorations of cultural heritage and trauma, and anyone fascinated by visceral, experimental approaches to grief and survival narratives. Ideal for fans of innovative literature and socially conscious arts and culture works.

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Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humour and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement.

In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage, language, and choice, disrupting attempts at reconciliation across generations. Questioning who is deemed worthy of public memorialisation, Diggs raises new monuments, tears down classist tropes, offers detailed instructions for her own international funeral celebrations, and makes visible the hidden labours of care and place.

From corners in Harlem through North Carolina back roads, Diggs complicates the concept of "survivor," getting to the truth of living in the dystopia of poverty.

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Village has received high praise, with Publishers Weekly calling it a "dazzling and impressive work" that sings out through hardship. The Poetry Foundation highlights its macaronic poems, noting the dynamic use of languages like Tsalagi, Portuguese, and Yoruba woven in complex visual patterns resembling city blocks. Orion Magazine applauds the book's refusal to be compartmentalised, likening it to part instruction manual, celebration, dance party, and garden tour, emphasising its engagement with difficult shared experiences through a richly diverse ecosystem of voices.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781566896610

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 March 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Coffee House Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

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Arts & Culture LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

A writer, vocalist and performance/sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). Diggs has presented and performed at California Institute of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, The Museum of Modern Art, and Walker Art Center and at festivals including: Explore the North Festival, Leeuwarden, Netherlands; Hekayeh Festival, Abu Dhabi; International Poetry Festival of Copenhagen; Ocean Space, Venice; International Poetry Festival of Romania; Question of Will, Slovakia; Poesiefestival, Berlin; and the 2015 Venice Biennale. As an independent curator, artistic director, and producer, Diggs has presented events for BAMCafe, Black Rock Coalition, El Museo del Barrio, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, and the David Rubenstein Atrium. Diggs has received a 2020 George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, a Whiting Award (2016) and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (2015), as well as grants and fellowships from Cave Canem, Creative Capital, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, among others. She lives in Harlem and teaches part-time at Brooklyn College and Stetson University.