| Description |
xii, 114 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Landless acknowledgment. The other Nate Marshall -- Nate Marshall is a white supremacist from Colorado or Nate Marshall is a poet from the South Side of Chicago or I love you Nate Marshall ; Another Nate Marshall origin story ; My daddy's daddy's daddy or the etymology of Marshall ; Another Nate Marshall origin story ; How to pronoune Nathaniel ; Another Nate Marshall origin story ; Nigger joke ; Nah nah this one though is for all my niggas. What's my favorite word? -- Everything I've called women ; My mom's favorite rapper was Too $hort ; With no invitation ; Bald fade ; Only boy ; My grandaddy sees the streets ; Epicene ; Darla: I don't know when -April 7, 2016 ; The homies ask if I'm tryna smash ; Step ; Your auntie don't understand why your great uncle such a no count negro & in general why men resolve to be no count dogs for no good reason ; An uncle's fable for consent ; Memoir of a wronger ; Poem in which I consider my artistic & romantic life via Purple Rain ; Telling stories ; The best story is about home because that's the story part ; Took a L fam ; Ode to vacation ; Sweet breath ; The valley of its making ; Harold's Chicken Shack #2 ; Habitual. Native Informant -- When I say Chicago ; Another Nate Marshall origin story ; Scruples ; Slave grammar ; Only 1 for whitefold using Black language ; Oo wop de bam ; A poem for Justin ; On _____ ; Conceal ; Poem for Blacky ; My mother's hands ; After we stopped rap ; Welcome to how the hell I talk ; What can be said ; African American literature ; FINNA is not a word ; I thought this poem was funny but then everybody got sad ; Inner child age projection: 57 years old ; Dispatch from the 6th circle ; Publicist ; When America writes ; Oregon Trail ; Wednesday feels like a funeral ; Let me put it to you like this fam. FINNA -- What it is & will be ; Aubade for the whole hood ; Another Nate Marshall origin story ; Hecky naw ; Imagine ; Which art? What fact? ; Fiddy'leven ; FINNA ; &nem. |
| Summary |
"Definition of Finna, created by the author: fin na /'fine/ contraction: (1) going to ; intending to. rooted in African American Vernacular English. (2) eye dialect spelling of "fixing to." (3) Black possibility ; Black futurity; Blackness as tomorrow. A lyrical and harp celebration, these poems consider the brevity and disposability of Black lives and other oppressed people in our current era of emboldened white supremacy. In three key parts, Finna explores the mythos and erasure of names in the American narrative; asks how gendered language can provoke violence; and finally, through the celebration and examination of the Black vernacular, expands the notions of possibility, giving us a new language of hope."-- Provided by publisher. |
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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Poetry -- African American authors.
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Black English -- Poetry.
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Language poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780593132456 (trade paperback) |
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0593132459 (trade paperback) |
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