Research Catalog

Title

Facing you : poems / Uche Nduka.

Author

Nduka, Uche, 1963-

Publication

• San Francisco : City Lights, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Caples, Garrett T.

Description

95 pages; 18 cm.

Summary

"FACING YOU is a collection of love lyrics, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic, FACING YOU nonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship, and is subject to the intrusions of "the dubious world": war, exile, protest, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka's expressions of desire, where reality and surreality are one. "These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience," he writes, "crossing the wires of sex and prophecy.""--

Series Statement

City Lights spotlight series ; no. 19

Uniform Title

City Lights spotlight ; no. 19.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Contents

Kick Off Your Shoes -- Dirty Tricks -- Bring The Notes -- In Another Direction -- Tightness of Blue -- I Haven't Seen Enough of You -- Ponder the Grit -- From Your Slant -- Losing My Cool -- Stepping Up -- Honor Roll -- Edge -- 9 Intrusions -- Overall Mood -- In a Textile Mill -- Extreme Weather -- No Replication -- Poetry -- Much Like Flavor -- The Provider -- Casein -- Lotus & Ruby -- Purple Fur Hoodie -- Rather Than Retreating -- Summering with You -- Air Around a Vase -- Into the Pollen -- Figuring It Out -- Breeding Arcs -- On the Verge -- Two Lovers -- What's at Risk of Being Forgotten -- As Any Banner -- Of Imprinting -- Still at It -- And the Moorings -- Everything You Need -- Seretita -- Good Thing -- Rumble -- Fishing Rod -- To Tongue It -- Out of Reach -- Riding a Honda -- To Touch -- Addresslessness -- Line of Devolution -- Where You Sit -- You Must Have the Guts -- Table of Noon -- What the Crickets Said -- The Burning Bouquet -- A Need to Cross a Line -- Stickers and Lilies -- Head to Heart -- Shards of Dawn -- Always Be True -- Double Act -- Opening Doors -- Hawk of Fracture -- Maths -- Within the Tongue -- In the Retinue -- Long Ago -- Beautiful Estrangement -- We Scramble Everything -- Armpits Spinning -- Opulence in Audition -- Legs Splayed -- A Xylophone Studies -- There's No Calabash -- Becoming Visible -- Clean the Paintbrushes -- In the Hard Pitch -- Now Let's Sing -- Memory Tore the Bone -- My Fall Cannot But Be Angelic -- Echo of the Tempos -- Once -- What Else Is Being Said -- Standing Witness -- Slanted into Colors -- A Return to Beauty -- Through the Sentence -- Brown Cover -- Inside The Light -- The Table with a Plate -- Samplers -- Mutation of Herb -- To Relight a Pipe -- Three Studies -- Go No Farther -- Like a Ring -- A Tour -- For the record.

Call Number

Sc C 21-17

ISBN

• 9780872868304
• 0872868303

LCCN

2019053008

OCLC

1128887295

Author

Nduka, Uche, 1963- author.

Title

Facing you : poems / Uche Nduka.

Publisher

San Francisco : City Lights, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

City Lights spotlight series ; no. 19

City Lights spotlight ; no. 19.

Local Subject

Black author.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Caples, Garrett T., editor.

Research Call Number

Sc C 21-17