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1 online resource (121 pages). |
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text file |
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Wesleyan poetry
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Wesleyan poetry.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; my last modernist poem, #4 (or, re-re-birth of a nation); out with the old; my life as china; from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass; celestial; mesostics from the american grammar book; statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways); good night women (or, defying the carcinogenic pen); her tin skin; pink-think (a primer for girls of other colors); clare's song; a sonnet for stanley tookie williams; in a non-subjunctive mood; where's carolina?; x marks the spot; received in spring; the defense of marriage act, alternatives to; dependencies. |
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Him/body/meant, her/body/meantwhere you are planted; a background in music; ode to my blackness; the cold; to see the minus; love life, with stitches; riven; never after; a matter of balance; on new year's eve; the cold; out with the new; owed to shirley chisholm; bop for presidential politics, c. 2008; getting around utopia; you can't deny it; womanish; duck, duck, redux; because there should be love; improper(ty) behavior; at the musée de l'homme; a question of survival; soundtrack for a generational shift; revisiting; her table mountain; notes to my nieces (or, essays in fortune-telling). |
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Coming of agego-go tarot; quiet as it's kept; tonight i saw; salty (extended play); explosives; (mis)takes one to know one; post-white; the fare-well letters; the fare-well letters; dear ace bandage; dear cuddly dharma; dear existential fallacy; dear gift horse; dear ink jet; dear kerosene lamp; dear mid-afternoon nap; dear opaque policy; dear quaalude residue; dear safety test; dear untimely violet; dear white xmas; dear yesterday's zero; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. |
| Summary |
A profound and uplifting meditation on the meanings of race and belonging in America. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors.
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American poetry -- African American authors. |
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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African Americans. |
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Racism -- United States -- Poetry.
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Racism. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Racism. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shockley, Evie. New black. Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, ©2012 9780819571403 |
| ISBN |
9780819572882 (electronic book) |
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0819572888 (electronic book) |
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9780819571403 (hardback) |
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0819571407 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9786613521507 |
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