| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Wesleyan poetry |
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Wesleyan poetry.
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| Contents |
Cover; the glory gets; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; fear; Singing Counter; Draft of an Ex-Colored Letter Sent Home from the Post-Race War Front; I End the Winter; Apologia for Something; My Father as Walter Lee Younger; Try to Hide; beauty; Mammy Know; Portrait D'une Négresse; Light; blues; Magdalene Brings; Magdalene Begins to See Jesus; What Jesus Said to Magdalene at Their Last Meal; Magdalene's Wait; Magdalene on the Third Day; hoodoo; Memory of a Vision of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans (1996); Memory of an Ancestral Vision (2006) |
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Angry Black Woman in Root Worker DragAfter, We'll Read the Bible; Job to His Daughter Jemima; [Faith is a virgin wrist]; [Today You spoke to me]; [Before I came to You]; [And how does God come]; [There is only]; [I recall four words]; [There is some blessedness]; wit; The Glory Gets; Female Surgery; My 4:15pm Shrink's Appointment on Thursday ; Memory of One Day in a Kitchen; Birthright; Patience; If Free, Then; Notes; Gratitude; Publication Acknowledgments and Credits; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Summary |
A deft, lyrical meditation on blues, womanhood, and beyond |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 9, 2015) |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780819575432 |
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0819575437 |
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