| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
44 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Awaking in New York -- Good woman feeling bad -- Health-food diner -- Georgia song -- Unmeasured tempo -- Amoebaean for daddy -- Recover -- Impeccable conception -- Caged bird -- Avec merci, mother -- Arrival -- Plagued journey -- Starvation -- Contemporary announcement -- Prelude to a parting -- Martial choreograph -- To a suitor -- Insomniac -- Weekend glory -- Lie -- Prescience -- Family affairs -- Changes -- Brief innocence -- Last decision -- Slave coffle -- Shaker, why don't you sing? -- My life has turned to blue. |
| Summary |
Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
|
|
American poetry -- African.
|
| ISBN |
0394521447: $7.95 |
|
