| Edition |
First MTV Books/Gallery Books trade paperback edition. |
| Description |
257 pages ; 18 cm |
| Note |
Poems. |
| Summary |
"After four years of living abroad, Saul Williams returned to the United States, his head twirling with thoughts on race, class, gender, finance, freedom -- everything that makes up our country." -- Back cover. |
| Contents |
Look how they treat us. Televisions descended from above -- Rammellzee at the Battle of the Republic -- There is a way of breaking a heart so that the blood spills evenly onto the page -- Drill rap lifted from Columbus's journal and thus claimed to be our beloved Pope the Queen -- When the ocean was the Internet, u were new to me -- Beneath the ruins are older ruins -- Brightly-coiled serpent -- Funk is its own reward -- Historic landmarks -- Paid advertisement 1 -- Answer to the question that wings ask -- Unanimous goldmine -- I, for one, am happy they keep casting white actors to star in Old Testament films -- Alternative reality, in which we learned to disappear -- Warded like music, by measures -- Disappearance of the O -- Dead beat -- Fck the beliefs -- Glorybox -- Coltan as cotton -- Paid advertisement 2 -- You can't unring the bell -- Satchmo's smile is contagious -- How I got over -- Manhattan beach -- Orca before he swallowed the black box -- Paid advertisement 3 -- Outlawed animal arguments for vegans -- Pattern against user -- Oceanium -- To drown in baptism -- These mthrfckrs -- As if thighs were parentheses -- Freedom virus found in monkeys -- Glorybox. American dream. Letters to a sleeping girlfriend -- Born of a fiery womb -- Undressed -- Tu lips -- Horn of the clock bike -- Haitian fight song -- Haunt -- Evelyn Nesbit -- Rottweiler choir -- How he talks to me -- Closer to birth than I am death -- Poisson rouge -- Minimizing, denying, and blaming -- Hit or miss -- Minstrel -- Love and the mountaineer -- Untitled -- Stephen Torton kicks off his shoes -- History of self defense -- Choose a side -- Mars Volta live in Charleston -- Montage -- Song keeper -- Say what you feel -- Songbird of the unworded testament -- Harmonic convergence -- Sketches of L'Heroine. |
| Subject |
African American authors.
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- African American authors.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00799028
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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American poetry -- African American authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807349
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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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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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USA |
| ISBN |
9781476779324 (paperback) |
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1476779325 (paperback) |
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