| Description |
xv, 191 pages ; 19 cm |
| Contents |
What makes the Dalai Lama lovable? -- If I was president ("were may be substituted by those who prefer it") -- From: poems for my girls -- Don't be like those who ask for everything -- Knowing you might someday come -- Turning madness into flowers #1 -- What it feels like -- Before I leave the stage -- Remember? -- Working class hero -- The ways of water -- You want to grow old like the Carters -- The answer is: live happily! -- Word reaches us -- When you see water -- This is a story of how love works -- Alice and Kwamboka -- May it be said of me -- And do you see what they have bought with it? -- She -- Our martyrs -- The tree of life has fallen -- To change the world enough -- Blessed are the poor in spirit -- What do I get for getting old? a picture story for the curious! -- Desire -- March births -- Two boys on a pink tricycle -- Coming to worship the 1,000-year-old cherry tree -- Listening to Bedouins, thinking of Bob -- Peonies -- Black and white cows -- Worms won't need a menu -- From paradise to paradise -- Sailing the hot streets of Athens, Greece -- Life takes its own sweet time -- One meaning of the immaculate heart -- To stand beaming and clapping -- And in that sacred time -- Why peace is always a good idea -- Hope -- Tranquil -- The raping of maids -- This human journey -- In this you are wrong -- Hope to sin only in the service of waking up -- The part of God that stings -- 9/11: an irrelevant truth -- The Buddha's disagreeable relative -- We who have survived -- Racism dates us -- The world we want is us -- The joyful news of your arrest -- Every revolution needs fresh poems -- The foolishness of captivity -- Despair is the ground bounced back from -- Occupying Mumia's cell -- Another way to peace -- We pay a visit to those who play at being dead -- Democratic womanism -- Democratic motherism -- After many years and much silliness -- When I join you -- Going out to the garden. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry -- African American authors.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781595588760 (hardcover) |
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1595588760 (hardcover) |
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