Errançities : poems /
"Coined with the French word errance ('to wander') in mind, these poems rove from ancient Yoruba to the streets of Harlem to the tropical heat of Guadeloupe and emerge with a new vocabulary for the transformations of the physical, philosophical, and musical worlds."--P. [4] of co...
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis [Minn.] :
Coffee House Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- An art of lost faith
- When time was young
- Las Cruces, New Mexico revisited
- Going back to voices lost in the past
- Historic attitudes in birds (& humans)
- Where have they all gone
- Harlem: circa 1983-1984
- Amnesia #1
- Amnesia #2
- Amnesia #3
- After seeing an image in Ashland, Oregon
- On a Sunday
- Mix-y-uppy memory
- What some old men keep telling me
- A hard quick rainstorm in Manhattan
- Sounds of New York City
- 2002 Manhattan snapshot: the war on terror
- A few questions posed
- Foggy morning in Port Townsend
- The allusion of seduction
- Searching for a word
- Praise song for Sekou
- Taps for Freddie
- Miles's last tune live, August 25th, 1991
- A poem of return: circa 2008
- Michael Jackson & the arc of love
- Thoughts on a Sunday morning in Goyave
- Goyave night scene
- Sitting on my veranda, facing the Caribbean Sea
- A veil of transparent rain
- A March day in Goyave
- A day in the life of King Rooster & his son
- Short-term America
- Mad Max
- Haiti haiku
- Earthquake: Haiti
- Hurricanes
- Lusting after mangoes
- Searching for mangoes: second take
- Listening to black birds
- Haiku song
- A vision
- Seven/elevens
- What's the real deal here
- Errançities
- The mystery man in the black hat speaks
- Wooden mouths
- The legend of Pablo Escobar
- Just think about it
- Looking into the future
- Eye travel back into memory
- Untitled dreamscape
- A man walks in slow motion
- Connections #2
- View from the 48th floor of the New World Trade Center Building #7
- The last stormy breaths of Irene
- Sentences.