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All Souls : Essential Poems /
This volume brings together work that reflects the interweaving of history, memory, and the indelible bonds between living and dead. Comprising poems written and published over the span of four decades, this thematic collection highlights the unity of Osbey's voice and narrative intent. The six...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Windows of Treme.
- 1. House in the Faubourg: The house in the street where memory lives
- Faubourg
- The old women on Burgundy Street
- Living in the tan house
- Madhouses
- Ramona Veagis
- Chifalta
- Ceremony for Minneconjoux
- Elvena
- Faubourg study : rain
- Regina
- Memory no. 2
- Faubourg study : blood
- Morning
- Faubourg study no. 3 : the seven sisters of New Orleans
- House of mercies
- The house.
- 2. Mourning like a skin: Peculiar fascination with the dead
- Stones of Soweto
- Another time and farther south
- Requiem for a chief
- For Charles H. Rowell, on the death of his father
- Requiem for a tall man
- Alberta.
- 3. Something about trains: Speaking of trains
- New train study.
- 4. Little history, part one: Qu'on arrive Enfin
- Slaves to the city
- The business of pursuit : San Malo's prayer
- The head of Luis Congo speaks
- DOM-TOM primer
- Regarding the intermediate travels of Cristoval Colon
- History
- Canne a sucre : a slave-song suite.
- 5. Unfinished coffees: Everything happens to (Monk and) me
- Expenditus
- The evening news : a letter to Nina Simone
- Litany of our lady
- Suicide city
- Desire and private griefs
- House of the dead remembering
- Evidence of conjure
- Freeing your hands
- Movement 1/part one
- Against the bone
- Memory no. 1
- The wastrel-women poem.
- Glossary and notes
- Author biography.