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Red beans and ricely yours : poems /
These narrative poems tell the day-to-day lives of Black New Orleans and the rare magic in the culture. Vibrant with local history and color, these poems have a Black sensibility that reaches beyond boundaries, with folk sayings turned into polished verse.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kirksville, Mo. :
Truman State University Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | New odyssey series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Red Beans and Ricely Southern; Word Works; Back on the Block; This Poem is for You My Sister; My Mother's the Daughter of a Slave; For Frank Fitch; Southern Sisters; Frontliners; Louisiana Log; A Few Words on My Words; I Had Forgotten the Loud; Shotgun Life; Shotgun Life I: Home; Shotgun Life II: Sonnet; Shotgun Life III: Today; Shotgun Life IV: Section 8, 2003; Shotgun Life V: Remembering D; Shotgun Life VI: Roots, 200 Years, Louisiana Purchase; Shotgun Life VII: Old School, Circa 1960; Red Beans and Ricely Creole Quarters
- Nat King Cole and Black Mona LisasMy Creole Daddy I; Daddy's Philosphy II; Daddy Poem III: New Orleans Then; Daddy Poem IV; For Daddy V; On My Block; Heritage; Parochial Product; My Cousin My Brother; French Market Morning; French Market Friend; Recycling Neighborhood Style; Villanelle for Voodoo; The Ballad of Marie LaVeau; The Last Mile; A Taste of New Orleans in Haiku; Summer in New Orleans; On Writing; Black Creole Love; This Afternoon...; Email: Hey Now; Distant Lover Poem; When We...; The First 30 Days; Charm Fails Death; Dueces Running Wild; Telling Poem; Like Langston Hughes Did
- Red Beans and Ricely BlackSong for Elder Sisters; Mother with Me on Canal Street, New Orleans; For My Brothers; jim crow; End Notes; The N Word; We've Come This Far; Glossary; About the Author