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Becoming ebony

Title: Becoming ebony / Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.
Author: Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh.
Publication: Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Description

ix, 79 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Uniform Title

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Subject

Contents

My Birth at the Doorpost -- I Used to Own This Town -- Get Out of Here, Boys! -- Requiem for Auntie -- Today Is Already Too Much -- For Marie Antoinette -- In the Beginning -- This Is What I Tell My Daughter -- War Baby -- The Moon Poem -- They Want to Rise Up -- Elegy to West Point Fishermen -- Coming Home to Iyeeh -- A Dirge for Charles Taylor -- Around the Mountains -- Elegy for Dessie -- Transfiguration -- When I Meet Moses -- For Robert Frost -- The Corrupt Shall Rise Incorruptible -- We've Done It All -- The World in Long Lines -- All the Soft Things of Earth -- Becoming Ebony -- For My Husband -- Wandering Child -- Small Desires -- When I Rise to Look the Sunshine in Its Bare Eye -- A Poem for My Father -- In This Town -- My Neighbors' Dogs -- A Letter to My Brother Coming to America -- My New Insurance Plan -- These Are the Reasons the Living Live -- M-T, Turning Thirteen -- Winter Street -- A Snowwoman in Her Dying Hour --
I Now Wander -- I Am Acquainted with Waiting.

ISBN

0809325179 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002010912

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries