| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 124 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
A collection of poetic works drawn from the personal writings of the award-winning music artist and lyricist explores such themes as love, the self, and the author's experiences as an African-American woman. |
| Contents |
All the Evil and All the Love -- Across Your Bread -- The Last Time -- Potty Trained -- The Downfall of a North Philly Freak -- Young Buck Lovin' on the Kitchen Floor -- Kings at Clubs? -- Pocket Size #1 -- The Sound of Your Name -- He Says -- Radio Blues -- It's the Little Things -- Pocket Size #4 -- Pocket Size #5 -- Old School Lovin' -- Caution -- Agape -- Untitled #1 (Love Sucks) -- Pocket Size #8 -- Dis Niggah (for Leslie) -- Blue -- Selfish -- Revolutionary Man -- Haiku #6 -- One Second of Warped Security -- Nothing Is For Nothing -- Haiku -- Haiku #1 -- Haiku #2 -- Haiku #3 -- Haiku #4 -- Haiku #5 -- I Be Thinking -- Lab Animal (from Inside the Cage to You) -- Searching -- Little Man in a Box (Catholicism) -- Pocket Size #3 -- My Life -- Life -- Pink Man's Redemption -- Untitled -- Untitled #2 -- Untitled #3 (in progress) -- I Forgive You -- Space -- Why Rape -- Us Sistahs Sometimes -- Envy -- Perms, Hot Combs, and Curlers -- When the Women Gather -- Mrs. Bird -- Independent Women (for Gia) -- Independent Women (for Gia too) -- Let It Out -- Stacia -- Young Miss Russell -- The Addiction (for One of the Bravest Women I Will Ever Know) -- Duafe -- Duafe Series #2 -- Today 4/4/00 (My Birthday) -- My Mother Loves Me -- Tree Like She (for Grandmothers Everywhere) -- Carried Away -- One of the Reasons (for the hoe on the corner) -- The Truth About Annana -- Poetry 4 Poets and Folks Who Would Like to be -- Pocket Size #2 -- Sarcasm and the Woman Poet -- How To -- Untitled (Listen) -- One Little Hope. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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African American women -- Poetry.
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African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Poesi.
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
031232961X |
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9780312329617 |
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