Reparations now! : poems /

Reparations now! : poems /

What is the price of a life, a stolen culture, a stolen heart? In formal and nontraditional poems, Reparations Now! asks for what is owed. Moving between voices and through intersecting histories, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones offers perspectives both sharp and compassionate, exploring the diff...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Ashley M., 1990- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Spartanburg, South Carolina : Hub City Press, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American poetry > 21st century.
American poetry > African American authors.
Table of Contents:
  • Hymn Of Our Jesus & The Holy Tow Truck
  • Mary, Don't You Weep, Or, Mary Turner Resurrected
  • Stephon Don't You Moan, Or, To Serve And Protect
  • The Kid Next To Me At The 7pm Showing Of The Avengers Has A Toy Gun
  • In My Dream, I'm Shot Again And Again
  • Soul Power / James Brown Time Loop
  • The Horns, According To James Brown
  • What Lives In The If In Al Green's "Simply Beautiful"
  • Home Security
  • Meteor Shower
  • Photosynthesis
  • She Is Beauty, She Is Grace
  • Poem In Which I Am Too Political To Read At Your School
  • The Hymn Of The Dogwood Tree
  • All Y'all Really From Alabama
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Excess
  • In Freeland, All The Beaches Are Owned
  • Sharks!
  • Sonnet For The Man Screaming Himself Into Existence At Bellevue ER
  • Love In The Time Of Pandemic
  • Ainteenem
  • Hostile Environment
  • God Made My Whole Body
  • A Poem About The Body
  • For The Men Who Made Sure I Knew They Did Not Love Me
  • In Critique Of Black Female Demonization, Not Miscegenation
  • Words With Friends
  • Bestiary Of Bad Kisses
  • Love Note: Surely
  • It Is Entirely Possible For A Black Girl To Be Loved
  • Summer Vacation In The Subjunctive
  • Contrapuntal With Gladys Knight And Infidelity
  • The Self Returns, A Year Later
  • Aubade With Lalah Hathaway And Rachelle Ferrell
  • Aubade: My Mother Calls Home
  • Sonnet With Kanye West And Late Uncle
  • Greatest Nigger Who Ever Lived
  • Reparations Now, Reparations Tomorrow, Reparations Forever
  • I Find The Earing That Broke Loose From My Ear The Night A White Woman Told Me The World Would Always Save Her
  • I Cannot Talk About The South Without Talking About Black Women
  • Friendly Skies, Or, Black Woman Speaks Herself Into God
  • An Experiential And Intellectual Discourse On The N-Word
  • Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane No. 106
  • Redlining
  • Oil Change
  • Catalog Of Things In Which There Is Still God
  • How To Let Go, Or, I Smudged Lost Loves Away Into The Ocean.