| Description |
1 online resource (128 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Old backdrops dark -- How mamas begin sometimes -- Still life with toothpick -- Keep saying heaven and it will -- Before orphan unearthed the mirror -- Fixing on the next star -- One way to run from it -- Annie Pearl, upward -- Otis and Annie, Annie and Otis -- June 25, 1955 -- Shoulda been Jimi Savannah -- Chicago -- Tenzone -- 3315 W. Washington, 3A -- Alliance -- 2. We shined like the new things we were -- A colored girl will slice you if you talk wrong about Motown -- Annie Pearl's arethabops -- True that -- Shedding -- Laugh your troubles away! -- The boss of me -- 3. Learning to subtract -- Ooo, baby, baby -- First friction -- Speculation -- Jumping doubledutch -- Minus one. Minus one more. -- And now the news : tonight the soldiers -- Have soul and die -- Next. Next -- 4. Mad at my whole damn face -- Ain't but one way heaven makes sense -- Tavern. Tavern. Church. Shuttered tavern, -- Sanctified -- An all-purpose product -- Baby of the mistaken hue -- Because -- What Garfield Park kept saying -- To keep from saying Dead -- 13 ways of looking at 13 -- Dear Jimmy Connoll -- Carnie -- Guess who's closest to heaven -- His for the taking -- Dirty Diana -- An open letter to Joseph Peter Naras -- An open letter to Joseph Peter Naras, take 2 -- 5. Wait -- An open letter to Joseph Peter Naras, take 3 -- Asking for a heart attack -- Hip-hop Ghazal -- Looking to see how the eyes inhabit dark, wondering about light -- Thief of tongues -- Motown crown |
| Summary |
National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Middle West -- Poetry
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African Americans -- Migrations -- Poetry
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FICTION -- General.
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African Americans
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African Americans -- Migrations
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Middle West
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781566893671 |
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1566893674 |
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1306444810 |
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9781306444811 |
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