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1 online resource (xii, 76 pages) |
| 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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Multi-User |
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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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Print version record |
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African American women -- Poetry
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Interracial marriage -- Poetry
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Adoptees -- Poetry
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Families -- Poetry
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Adoptees
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African American women
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Families
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Interracial marriage
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Poetry
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99050564 |
| ISBN |
9781628961959 |
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1628961953 |
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