Research Catalog

Title

Lions don't eat us / Constance Quarterman Bridges ; selected and introduced by Sonia Sanchez.

Author

Bridges, Constance Quarterman.

Publication

St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-

Description

xv, 140 pages; 23 cm

Note

• "Winner of the 2005 Cave Canem Poetry Prize."

Contents

Albert's story : part 1 : Gordian Knot -- Albert's story : part 2 : the me that is -- Albert's story : part 3 : old man Fray -- Albert's story : part 4 : courtship -- Albert's story : chocolate -- Rhoda Randolph Fray : part 1 : Rhoda's song -- Rhoda Randolph Fray : part 2 : patience -- Rhoda Randolph Fray : part 3 : this is my silence -- Rhoda Randolph Fray : damaged by wind -- Rhoda Randolph Fray : Rhoda's face -- Cheawanta's dance -- Remembering James Lewis -- James Lewis's hands -- Sunday silk -- A proper woman -- This day -- The food of storytelling -- Where Wolves live -- The weavers' threads -- Photograph album -- Passing -- Composition for Charlie -- Charlie's women -- Two days after the fourth of July 2000 -- Her name was Mary Fray -- Capacity to love -- Grandmother said -- Her way -- The walls have ears -- Plowing -- Blood of our mothers -- Roots -- Place -- Mother's tin box -- Cooking rice in a home while dreams sleep -- Fireflies, how you wear them -- Lions don't eat us -- Brown paper bags -- Medicine bottles and baseball -- Prophecy -- The great migration -- If my sapling survives winter ... -- Leaving home -- Sleeping where elephants dance -- Traveling north -- Detroit -- June 1917 letter from Philadelphia, this city sings -- February 1918 letter from Philadelphia, Caesar Lee -- September 1923 letter from Philadelphia, about salt and sugar -- The journey home -- Language of love -- Smoking leaf -- Thunderbird -- I will not be remembered -- The legend of Tsali -- Goree, island of infamy -- Betrayal of breasts -- Baobab tree -- Arms of Jesus -- Skeletons -- Translations -- Braiding -- Generations -- The price of land -- Ancestors.

ISBN

• 1555974546 (pbk.)
• 9781555974541 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2006924336
• 9781555974541

OCLC

• ocm71826786
• SCSB-5278769

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries