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1 online resource (xii, 76 pages) |
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monochrome |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Contents |
Table of Contents; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Praise; Acknowledgements; rhythm; For The Woman Who Didn't Know My Name; music: one; The Famous Door; Prayer; The Masked Woman; At 25, I Have Already Begun to Like Lou Raws; Yea, Though I Walk ... ; Order of Adoption in the Matter of Minor #44478; music: two; Rites of Passage; Poem for My Sisters; A, ; Hey A, ; Johnny; Dreadlock; Exercise in Tension or Truth or Whatever; "The Cholesterol Can Make You Stupid ... "; Collard Folk; dance; Dré; Benjamin; The Prospect of Tomi-Terre; Curating the Boogie Down; Tour Guiding Our Nation' Capital. |
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Sunday Dinner at Miss Rayella'sTower; ʺIt Wasnʹt Not Funnyʺ; Refrigerator Mouth; As on Every Saturday At 12; John Edgar Wideman, Apologies . . .; The First Time I Saw Flo-Jo; Once Upon a Time; Nora; Zawadi; oo-bop-she-bam; In Search of Aunt Jemima; Ode of the Hoodoo Woman; ʺBreeze Driftinʹ On By; Notes. |
| Summary |
In her first book-length collection of poetry, Crystal Williams utilizes memory and music as she lyrically weaves her way through American culture, pointing to the ways in which alienation, loss, and sensed ""otherness"" are corollaries of recent phenomena. Williams writes about being adopted by an interracial couple, a jazz pianist/Ford Foundry worker and a school psychologist, and how that has affected her development as an African American woman. She tries to work out the answers to many difficult questions: in what way do African American artists define themselves? What do they owe the. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English. |
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African American women -- Poetry.
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African American women. |
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Poetry.
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Interracial marriage -- Poetry.
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Interracial marriage. |
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Adoptees -- Poetry.
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Adoptees. |
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Families -- Poetry.
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Families. |
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Multi-User |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Print version: Williams, Crystal, 1970- Kin. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2000 (DLC) 99050564 (OCoLC)42786080 |
| ISBN |
9781628961959 (electronic book) |
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1628961953 (electronic book) |
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9780870139680 |
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0870139681 |
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9781628951950 |
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1628951958 |
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0870135481 (alkaline paper) |
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9780870135484 (alkaline paper) |
| Music No. |
MWT11396549 |
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