All souls : essential poems /

All souls : essential poems /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Osbey, Brenda Marie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
African American women > Poetry.
Lyrik.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
African American women.
American poetry > African American women authors > 21st century.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1 House in the Faubourg
  • The House in the Street Where Memory Lives
  • Faubourg
  • The Old Women on Burgundy Street
  • Living in the Tan House
  • Madhouses
  • Ramona Veagis
  • Chifalta
  • Ceremony for Minneconjoux
  • Elvena
  • Faubourg Study: Rain
  • Regina
  • Memory No. 2
  • Faubourg Study: Blood
  • Morning
  • Faubourg Study No. 3: The Seven Sisters of New Orleans
  • House Of Mercies
  • The House
  • pt. 2 Mourning Like a Skin
  • Peculiar Fascination with the Dead
  • Stones of Soweto
  • Another Time and Farther South
  • Requiem for a Chief
  • For Charles H. Rowell, on the Death of His Father
  • Requiem for a Tall Man
  • Alberta
  • pt. 3 Something about Trains
  • Speaking of Trains
  • New Train Study
  • pt. 4 Little History, Part One
  • Qu'on Arrive Enfin
  • Slaves to the City
  • The Business of Pursuit: San Malo's Prayer
  • The Head of Luis Congo Speaks
  • DOM-TOM Primer
  • Regarding the Intermediate Travels of Cristoval Colon
  • History
  • Canne a Sucre: A Slave-Song Suite
  • pt. 5 Unfinished Coffees
  • Everything Happens to (Monk and) Me
  • Expenditus
  • The Evening News: A Letter to Nina Simone
  • Litany of Our Lady
  • Suicide City
  • Desire and Private Griefs
  • House of the Dead Remembering
  • Evidence of Conjure
  • Freeing Your Hands
  • Movement 1/part one
  • Against the Bone
  • Memory No. 1
  • The Wastrel-Women Poem.