Description |
1 online resource (x, 77 pages). |
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Series |
Lannan literary selections
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Lannan literary selection.
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Note |
Poems. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Pledge -- Before diagnosis -- Cross country -- The mare of money -- On visiting the site of a slave massacre in Opelousas -- Do not enter -- Shadowboxing herons -- John Henryism -- Kletic of Walt Whitman, the wound dresser -- Close your eyes -- Of genocide, or merely sound -- Southern charm -- Epithalamium -- In a brief, animated world: the marriage of Anne of Denmark to James of Scotland, 1589 -- Self-portrait as Vincent van Gogh in the asylum at Arles -- Boy removing fleas -- Asylum -- Self-portrait as love in Mississippi -- Treatment -- Self-portrait as Duchenne at La Salpêtrière -- Some young kings -- What Stalin grew tired of, 1931 (Bulgakov blue) -- Thinking of Anne Frank in the middle of winter -- According to scholars, everything -- Tortoise moves toward the sea -- After love -- Revival -- 1987 -- Cymothoa exigua -- Self-portrait as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis -- The parable of a blade of grass -- Trade beneath the aqueducts -- The water parting -- Brazil -- Exit interview -- After Easter Sunday 1945 -- Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence -- Samba in São Cristóvão, or temporary flight -- Frail bridges -- Wave before leaving, wave -- Against its own ringing -- Schistosoma mansoni -- I've given -- Brief angel -- Our little diorama of Argentina (Plaza de Mayo) -- Every casket, a pause -- In adjuntas -- Apollo, Neruda, and not yet -- Maggot therapy -- When I come to the Valley of the Black Pig -- In the lone horse and plum, Wu-Tang -- Romanticism (the blue Keats) -- Someday I'll love Roger Reeves. |
Summary |
In this riveting debut, Reeves argues that black history is human history, and the suffering belongs to all of us. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Added Title |
Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013025832
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781619321366 |
ISBN |
161932136X (electronic book) |
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9781619321366 (electronic book) |
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1556594488 |
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9781556594489 |
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