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I can't talk about the trees without the blood /
"For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Pitt poetry series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Nashville; I.I Can't Talk; Cross/Bite; Cottonmouth; Bear Witness; Soil Horizon; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #1; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #2; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #7; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #14; Ways to Be Saved; Dead Bug; Tim; Dutchman in Reverse; 800 Days: Libation; The Ayes Have It; Ode to the Only Living Object that Survived; II. About the Trees; After Apollo; After Agon; After Orpheus; The Rime of Nina Simone; III. Without the Blood; BBHMM; First Tree, at Church Camp; First Blood; Self-Portrait as First Kiss; What the Blood Does
- Where the Fired Body Is PorousSelf-Portrait as Hannah Peace; Mother Driving Away After Christmas; In the Middle of Things . . .; Freelove in Retrograde; I Started Praying for You; After Amistad; Midnight to 3 A.M.; Rituals; Mixed Bitch; Epilogue; How to Find the Center of a Circle; Notes; Acknowledgments