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Anointed to fly
- Title
- Anointed to fly / Gloria Wade Gayles.
- Author
- Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade.
- Publication
- New York : Harlem River Press, 1991.
- New York : Published by Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc.
- ©1991
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3573.A338 A664 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 179 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- A colleciton of poems which explore the unspoken fabrics and textures which are woven into family and blackness.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Poésie.
- Note
- Poems.
- Contents
- Part One. sometimes; Letters to our Ancestors; Harvest; Rivers; Sometimes was Women Only; For My Lost Sisters; Women's Hands; Lava; For Those Who are Trying to Understand Black Women; Untitled; A Woman's Lament; On Loving Me; On Falling in Love with Myself; On Celie -- Part Two. The Concentrated Truth; Our Mothers' Silence; Trust; For Women Who Birth Daughters; Beatitudes for "Ladies"; A Foolish Question, Some Smart Answers; Initiation into Tenderness; A Mother's Gift; Celebrating My Children's Births; Successful Errors; Maternal Release; ChildrenMothers; For My Grandmother; Sunday Ritual; For Mama; Untitled; Acceptance; Grief -- Part Three. Black Men; A Love Duet for Black Women and Black Men; A Primer for Black Women and Black Men; What Will You Remember, What Will You Forget?; Images; But Was It More than Sex Appeal?; Prince Albert Ineeed: An Epitaph for My Uncle; A Mother Speaks About War -- Part Four -- Brogan-ed Life; For Revolutionaries; A Love Poem; Inquisition; Embrace; Heartwounds; Love's Name; Departure; Forgive Me; Loving Again; The Question; My People; Swords; Pessimism; Cracked; White Magic; On Hearing and Once Believing; "Come Back" to the Island; Nightmare; Rewind;??Glory Halleulujah??; The Pilgrimage; Beyond Gender; The Problem; A Black Woman's RSVP; Pretenders; To White Women Who Come with Words Only; For White Women Who Choose Liberation; And the Women Gathered; Feeling Low; Untitled; The Lesson; Platitudes; It's All the Same; Loss; Recovery; Unwanted Guest; When I Was a Child; Talking to Myself; For a Friend Who Considers Suicide; Fighting My Homophobia; Fear; Anointed to Fly.
- ISBN
- 0863163041
- 9780863163043
- 0863163092
- 9780863163098
- OCLC
- ocm25565407
- 25565407
- SCSB-1971575
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library