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Title

Whispers, secrets and promises / E. Ethelbert Miller.

Author

Miller, E. Ethelbert.

Publication

Baltimore : Black Classic Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Description

xxi, 117 pages; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Poems

Alternative Title

• Poems
• Whispers, secrets & promises

Contents

Whispers, Secrets and Promises -- there is no need for us -- Ask Me Now -- Rain -- Love Inside Your Triangle -- Miami in November -- Do nothin' till you hear from me -- Bringing Back the Draft -- The Bath -- AM -- heart on fire -- Meal -- Conversation -- Conjure -- Blue Candles -- the first time I saw your back -- O(h) -- River -- In a time of Desire -- sometimes I think of loving you -- There Are Nights -- When a Man Loves a Woman -- Unemployment -- I Have Always Wanted a Woman To Be My Lover -- My Father's Girlfriend -- How We Sleep On The Nights We Don't Make Love -- Lover Behind a Blue Door -- did she go to new york city? -- The Light On Rebecca's Breast -- Terrorism -- Aaron -- Co-Star -- The Boys of Summer -- Players -- My Brother Richard Crosses the Street -- Departures & Arrivals -- My Father Is Washing His Face -- Bread -- The Gray Smoke of Clubs -- The night before the first day of school -- When We Are Alone -- Inheritance -- Science -- Sidewinder, 1972 -- My Mother Wants To Be Young Again -- Family Secrets -- Father's Day -- Angela -- Houston Christmas Eve 1954 -- From The Letters of Brerbert -- From The Letters of Brerbert -- 1907: Jazz in New Orleans -- The Voice of Aretha Franklin Surprises Me -- Roy Campanella: January, 1958 -- You Send Me: Bertha Franklin, December 11, 1964 -- Nasrin -- Elizabeth Alexander -- Yona Catches a Cab -- Tyson's Corner -- Running With the Bulls -- Carmen and the Fire Across Town -- I've Been Waiting For a Letter From You -- A Painting of a Street In Black and Blue -- A House In Provincetown -- This Is Better Than a Letter From France -- The Inheritance of Islands -- in small town usa -- Mountain Wife -- Letter From Carol -- The Women -- Is It Raining In Medford? -- The Hands of Che Guevara -- Flowers & Nike Plants -- Urban Zen -- Orphan In Beirut -- black boys -- Choirboy With A Horn -- Sponge -- OJ Remembers Buffalo -- Sky -- Who would do such a thing? -- City -- Cats -- Autumn -- Fish & Chips -- does everybody live in New York or am I the last cowboy? -- Omar's House -- Omar In School -- Oh Nigeria! -- I am Black and the Trees Are Green -- Koan -- The Slave Stripped Bare By her Master, Even -- Freedom -- Hughes in Reno, 1934 -- Langston -- Memphis In September -- ... and then Mr. Dorsey Wrote Precious Lord -- Salat -- Oklahoma -- Post-Card from Geneva -- Love, Still Life and Other Items -- For June -- Chalk.

ISBN

1574780115 (pbk.) :

LCCN

• 98072420
• 781574780116

OCLC

ocm39494923

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries