Research Catalog

Title

And all these roads be luminous : poems selected and new / Angela Jackson.

Author

Jackson, Angela, 1951-

Publication

Evanston, Ill. : Triquarterly Books, 1998.

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Details

Description

xiii, 197 pages; 21 cm

Contents

• Strolling -- Fish Fry: On the Cleaning and Eating of Secrets -- The Love of Travelers -- Blue Milk -- Moment -- My Dream Bo -- Joyce Says -- Choosing the Blues -- Chain Gang -- Beauty -- Bread -- The Fitting Room -- Why I Must Make Language -- Ifa as Eve -- The Village Women and the Swinging Guests (of Tarzan and Jane) -- Embracing Hansel and Gretel in the Trickle-Down Time of American Famine -- Mexico City, 1985 -- On Reading Matter -- The Outcast Learns the Language of Birds -- In Dark Bounty: In Memory of St. Charles Lwanga Faith Community -- The Resolution -- Faith -- Too Sweet -- Angelhair -- The Gulf of Blues -- Hattie -- Caesura -- Dr. Watts -- The Man with the White Liver -- Mules and Women -- Arachnia: Her Side of the Story -- Miz Rosa Rides the Bus -- Lust: African-American Woman Guild -- Rock and Roll Monster: Down Home Blues Goes Hollywood -- grits -- greens -- in an african light -- Wares for the Man Wherever This Song Is -- Hootchie Cootchie Man --
• Mr. Snake, I Don't Like You -- Doubting Thomas -- Monroe, Louisiana -- On the Train that Glides from Plane to Plane -- another time, the forms of famine -- The Cost of Living -- Practicing Patience -- Remembering -- The Bloom Amid Alabaster Still -- The God of Fire -- The Autumn Men -- A Woman Along the Way -- Litany -- Cayenne -- Fire Is Absolute -- So This Is How the Women -- Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E -- Mr. Solomon and His Queen -- Woman in Moonlight Washes Blues from Dreams -- Festival -- The Witherspoons: Walk Up, Bell Out of Order -- The Mother Behaves Like a Young Woman with a Lover when Nat King Cole Comes on the Box -- Black Atlanta Mother Waits at Window, 1981 -- The Brother Guild Calls the Game on Sunday Afternoon -- Loving -- Woman Pitting Fruit at the Kitchen Window -- Miz Sheba Williams: As Told to This Reporter from the Community News Front -- PoemMaker -- Who Would Trade It? Who? -- Making the Name -- Song of the Writer Woman --
• Sojourner: Traveling LIght -- Rain -- Woman Watches Ocean on a Reef through a Glass-Bottomed Boat -- Conversation with Catalpa Tree -- Kinsmen: An Address -- greenville -- john jackson -- home trainin -- The Robinsons -- early evenings -- other evenings -- aunt beebee -- in my father's garden -- Angeline, Daughter of Alcie -- Willie Mae -- Cook County Hospital, 1962 -- Make/n my Music -- a summer story -- Memories/The Red Bootee -- I Break My Own Heart -- if i tole you -- Second Meeting -- Angel -- Veneration: Maturity -- george, after all, means farmer -- One Kitchen -- One Quasi-Sonnet from the Portuguese -- a beginning for new beginnings -- Haiti: 1979 -- the ways we will deny ourselves -- one slip of the tongue -- parentage -- Flags -- steveland -- A Wedding Reception -- What I Said as a Child -- Journey to Africa.

ISBN

• 081015076X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0810150778 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

97041969

OCLC

• 37721483
• ocm37721483

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries