Research Catalog

Title

On the imperial highway : new and selected poems / by Jayne Cortez.

Author

Cortez, Jayne

Publication

New York : Hanging Loose Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

131 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Poetry
• History
• American poetry > African American authors
• American poetry > Women authors
• American poetry > 21st century
• New York (N.Y.) > Poetry
• Liberty > Poetry
• Black people > History > Poetry
• Black people > Race identity > Poetry

Genre/Form

• American poetry – 21st century.
• American poetry – Women authors.
• American poetry – African American authors.
• History
• Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From Scarifications (1973) -- I Am New York City -- Do You Think -- Under the Edge of February -- From Mouth on Paper (1977) -- For the Poets -- In the Morning -- Give Me the Red on the Black of the Bullet -- So Many Feathers -- Ogun's Friend -- Nighttrains -- From Firespitter (1982) -- Red Pepper Poet -- Once Upon a Road -- Big Fine Woman from Ruleville -- Nigerian/American Relations -- If the Drum Is a Woman -- Rape -- There It Is -- From Coagulations (1984) -- Stockpiling -- Plain Truth -- In a Stream of Ink -- From Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere (1996) -- Adupe -- Don't Ask/1980 -- Man with Elephantiasis Leg in Recife Brazil -- Now I Dig Up Patinas -- Heavy Headed Dance -- Companera (Ana Mendieta) -- These New York City Pigeons -- Global Inequalities -- Sacred Trees -- Oppressionists -- At a Certain Moment in History -- From The Beautiful Book (2007) -- Spoken Word -- Haiti 2004 -- Free Time Friction -- Talking About New Orleans -- Conversation with Langston Hughes -- I Am New York City 2 -- That Carrot -- Okra -- Cheese -- What a Mouthfull -- Tomato -- Avocado -- Kola Nut -- Eggplant -- On the Job in 2000 -- Integration -- Ballroom Audubon -- Short Poem / Long Story -- Coup -- History -- Definitions -- Imperial Highway -- Tell It to Me -- Disaster -- In the Crosswalk -- States of Motion 2 -- What a Mouthfull -- I Was Dreaming.

ISBN

• 9781931236904 (pbk.)
• 1931236909
• 9781931236997 (hbk.)
• 1931236992

OCLC

• 286454439
• SCSB-11358425

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library