| Edition |
First Anchor Books edition. |
| Description |
x, 99 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Poem for a young poet -- November poem for Alegria: 1996 -- What great grief has made the Empress mute -- Argument with the Buddha -- Merry-go-round poetry -- Lebanon Lebanon -- Short takes -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Sometimes clarity comes in the dark -- Poem after receiving voicemail from you after (I don't even know anymore) how long! -- Tanka trio -- Ghaflah -- Haiku for the would-be killers of a teacher -- Bridget song # 1 -- Study # 1 -- Eclipse of 1996 -- Message from belfast for justice and for gerry adams -- Letter to mrs. Virginia thomas, wife of whatzhisname lamentably appointed to the supreme court, U.S.A. -- First poem after serious surgery -- Bombing of Baghdad -- October snowpea poem -- Campsite # 21 -- Bosnia Bosnia -- Focus in real time -- Poem in memory of alan schindler, 22 years old -- Poem because the 1996 u.s. Poet laureate told the san francisco chronicle there are "obvious" poets--all of them white--and then there are "representative" poets--none of them white -- Poem to continue a conversation for Erwin Cho-Woods -- Christmas poem -- Poem at the end of the third year -- Birthday in Paris -- Study # 2 for b.b.l. -- Poem # 1 for b.b.l. -- Poem # 3 for b.b.l. -- Fact sheets for b.b.l. -- Poem # 4 for b.b.l. -- Poem for Laura -- Poem # 6 for b.b.l. -- Poem # 7 for b.b.l. -- Intifada incantation: poem # 8 for b.b.l. -- Tanka metaphors or not for b.b.l. -- Haiku for b.b.l. -- Poem # 9 for b.b.l. -- Kissing god goodbye. |
| Summary |
A professor of African-American studies, feminist, and award-winning poet presents a collection of lyrical, musical poems on such subjects as the stereotyping of women, her relationship with her mother, and the victimization of blacks in Los Angeles |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
0385490321 paperback |
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9780385490320 paperback |
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