| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
103 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Eggplants: A Fable 1 -- Vichyssoise 4 -- Haiku Scenes 6 -- Versace 9 -- A Convention of Little Dogs 10 -- Fear 15 -- Fourteen Doors at Comstock Prison 16 -- Historical Moment 18 -- The Hours Fly Quick 19 -- Politicians and Show Business 20 -- The Times We Live In 23 -- Three Sevens: 21 Lines Hoping for Change 24 -- Shared Poem 25 -- The Signatures of Time 26 -- Eye Am Forever Looking for Shadows 27 -- A Poem for All So-called Half-breeds: The Legacy, a Slow Turning 29 -- Memory as a Circle: For the Love Eye Lost in Hurricane Audrey 37 -- September 27, 2004 39 -- St. Louis Music Flashback 40 -- Diva 42 -- Lucille 44 -- The Shot 46 -- For Richard Pryor: 1940-2005 47 -- Mexican Lore 51 -- The West Indian Day Parade 52 -- Connections 55 -- In Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 58 -- A Woman in the Water 61 -- A Kite above the Beach 62 -- The Moon Is a Lemon Wedge 63 -- Sometimes in Montebello 64 -- The Old Black Man Walking 66 -- Eye Am Thinking of Moments 67 -- We Have Come Here Again 69 -- Music Is Language 73 -- What Is It Poetry Seeks 75 -- What Is It 77 -- Switchin' in the Kitchen 78 -- The Architecture of Language 83. |
| Summary |
"Full of rhythm and big-breath lines, Troupe's poetry explodes from the page, capturing the spirit of America. Inspired by contemporary art, music, literature, and sports, Troupe dismantles the dangerously cliched, wooden rhetoric saturating our national discourse and rebuilds the language in poems bursting with beauty, energy, and enough imaginative fire to light the way to the future."--Publisher's website. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Troupe, Quincy. Architecture of language. 1st ed. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2006 (OCoLC)607771899 |
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Online version: Troupe, Quincy. Architecture of language. 1st ed. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2006 (OCoLC)608409777 |
| ISBN |
1566891892 (alk. paper) |
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9781566891899 (alk. paper) |
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1566891906 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781566891905 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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