| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 109 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Arroz poetica -- I. Jacaranda -- After lightning, I dream of Abrigette -- Santa Ana of grocery carts -- Ode to the brain -- Ode to the watermelon -- Sudan -- Palimpsest -- Palimpsest -- Adisogdo's song -- Ride -- Alchemy -- Then sing -- Here -- II. To the (heart) horse -- Astigmatism -- Conjugation -- Piano -- Teeth -- Consider the hands that write -- 13 -- Snail, or, to a House -- Hyena, hyena -- Cyclops Mary (I) -- Cyclops Mary on the Avenue, a monologue (II) -- Incredible story of Mother Mom & the daughter who was yaken by crows (as told by the oldest girl) -- Zouk -- Ish -- Aunt Margaret, tree of blackbirds, tree of oranges -- III. Chernobyl -- In the cane fields -- Limay, Nicaragua -- What brang me here -- But when they go to the light the fire on me -- Lázaro, for Don Tranquilino -- Lazrus & girlie speak of rising a hundred days after Lazrus' death -- Ghazal -- Tucutu tán -- IV. Invocation -- Antinion -- V. Scent : love poem for the Pilón -- Dog - Ode to the letter B -- For Estefani Lora, third grade, who made me a card -- Monologue of the hear pumping -- Blood -- Fiel -- Love -- Photograph of Esther Ruth & [Cisco] -- What faith to be this kind of fish -- For the psychic at Broadway & 207th -- To the child I met without knowing the story -- Rain at Dzorwulu -- Litany -- Epistolary dream poem after finding a schoolbook maps. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Poetry.
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African Americans. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Subject |
Eritrean Americans -- Poetry.
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Eritrean Americans. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Girmay, Aracelis. Teeth. 1st ed. Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2007 (OCoLC)647368870 |
| ISBN |
9781931896368 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1931896364 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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