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Author Manuel, Douglas

Title Testify
Published Newburyport : Red Hen Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (81 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Contents -- I -- Loud Looks -- Washing Palms -- Aubade -- Little Fires Left by Travelers -- Get Your Head out of the Gutter -- Luxury Items -- As if I can unchisel pain, -- Feels like Rain -- Baubles -- Entreaties -- Heading Down -- Me, The Boondocks. Her, South Park. -- Indefensible -- Best Act like You Know -- Bad Son -- Mic Drop -- I'll Leave Your Ass Here -- II -- "Are You Ready to Help the Parents of This Child in Their Duty as Christian Parents?" -- Of Wasp Hum and Catacombs -- I'm My Father's Name -- Lost Side of Loss
Keeping It Real -- The First Time I See My Father's Blood Cleaned -- Fishing -- This Poem Isn't Black -- Vertigo -- Give Me My Mama Back -- Whose Little Boy Are You? -- My Brother Smoked Rocks with a Qur'an at His Feet -- Love's Austere and Lonely Offices -- Never Left My Name -- We Had the Second Biggest Gymnasium in the Nation -- Testify -- III -- Goodnight, Baby -- Crown Hill Cemetery -- Bullets Ain't Got No Names on Them -- What I Wish My Mother Had Told My Father -- I Can Run Five Miles but Can't Get to the Other Side of My Mind -- Is That My Father? -- I'm Suspicious -- All Is Laughter
Knee Deep -- Pray to This -- The Cripple and the Crackhead -- Notes -- Gratitudes -- Biographical Note
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject American poetry -- 21st century.
American poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781597095754
1597095753