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Title

In which language do I keep silent / Earl Sherman Braggs.

Author

Braggs, Earl S.

Publication

Tallahassee : Anhinga Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Anhinga Press, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Description

xiii, 229 pages; 23 cm

Note

• Poems.

Contents

The earl of everything : first movement : the thunder -- The earl of everything : second movement : the lightning -- The earl of everything : third movement : the rain -- The city -- Crossing Tecumseh Street -- Close to something, perhaps -- Windy town -- Any answer I give -- Like a rhinestone cowboy -- November 6th Street -- The last trailer in the park -- Missile in a cigar wrapper -- Cities that we remember each other by -- The last dream song in room 237 -- USA Today -- Science is not fiction, wrong is not a direction -- No joy luck club -- Vivaldi's "Winter" on violin -- Cities that remind us of ourselves -- I am not a mascot, I am not a street sign -- Salt city -- Stripped by the lights -- Leaving without explanation -- The crying game -- A 1967 pop -- Leaving Lester -- The city of constellations -- House on Fontanka -- Tragedy and the fairytale prince -- The story of us -- Some called her, Anya -- The two deaths of Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Akhmatova said -- A letter to Akhmatova -- The girl -- The boy -- Reframing the market place dog -- Sweeping dirt -- Rock Russia roll -- Vladivostok -- In which language do I keep silent -- Steal the stage then set it afire -- Tie dyeing the world -- The yellow Volkswagen -- The year of the monkey -- Vietnam revisited -- The things they carried -- Simon and Naomi -- Our town was any town, but Motown was heaven -- Miles Davis plays trumpet at the funeral of Malcolm X -- It's not about baseball -- I ain't afraid of Virginia -- Two blue glasses -- When the rhetoric of revolution becomes the medium of love -- Hats -- The birth of Tally's blues -- Catfish people -- Red beans, rice, and a good radio station -- These black hands -- The Sunday facts of a partly cherished life -- Family reunion -- The eyes of seven gypsy ladies -- The blueberry boy -- Impresario of hats.

ISBN

• 0938078933
• 9780938078937

LCCN

2006929377

OCLC

• ocm76954931
• SCSB-5304176

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries