Research Catalog

Title

Vixen / Cherene Sherrard.

Author

Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-

Publication

Pittsburgh : Autumn House Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

viii, 55 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Cherene Sherrard's poetry takes to task the historical narratives and artistic mediums that have shaped racial and gender identity. She asks her readers to closely examine the hand that guides the pen, the photographer behind the lens, and the star on stage. In powerful, finely crafted lines, Sherrard's poems interrupt and redirect the conversation.

Subjects

• Poetry
• American poetry > African American women authors > 21st century
• African American women > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• American poetry – African American women authors – 21st century.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Forest -- Love in the Time of the Machete 3 -- One Moment She Was There and the Nest 4 -- Cotillion 5 -- Beauty Mark 6 -- Egyptland 7 -- Voice is Not My Instrument 9 -- Wild Man 10 -- Beadwork 11 -- Cameo 12 -- Our Ariel 13 -- Nightmare Chronicles 14 -- Lady with a Lamppost 15 -- In Commemoration of Convalescence 16 -- Hag-Ridden 17 -- Dictator's Wife, or Mildred Aristide Prepares to Address the Congressional Black Caucus 19 -- Residual 21 -- Seditious Saga of Annabelle X as Told to the Abolitionist Mrs. Sarabeth Clarke of Rochester, New York, in Nine Parts -- Meet Awful 25 -- Annabelle 26 -- Fine Print 27 -- Duel 28 -- Chivalry 29 -- Peals of Bell-Shaped Laughter 30 -- Master Bode 31 -- Pleading the Belly 32 -- Nostalgia 33 -- Snares -- Holy Cathedral at Toledo as Praise Shack 37 -- Zoraya's Lament 38 -- Weep Like a Woman for What You Could Not Hold as a Man 39 -- Forbid Rosemary 40 -- Our Lady of the Orange Trees 41 -- White City 42 -- Iruña 43 -- Castle of Olives 44 -- Seeking: Must Love Sidewalk Chalk 45 -- Look Away! 46 -- Extravagant Colors Not Found in Nature 47 -- Sustainability 48 -- Covenant 49 -- What We Know as Pristine 50 -- Cooking with Glass 51 -- Between Pickled Pears and Preserved Peaches I Find 52 -- Blood-Red Velvet with Scream Please, Frost Me 53.

ISBN

• 193876921X
• 9781938769214

OCLC

989044407

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library