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African American entertainers 19th century Poetry African American girls African Americans in the performing arts 19th century Poetry African Americans in the performing arts 20th century Poetry African Americans Poetry African Americans Social life and customs 19th century Poetry American poetry Noirs américains Identité ethnique Poésie United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Poetry World War, 1914-1918 Participation, African American PoetryMarie, Aurielle
Summary: "Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MARJess, Tyehimba
Summary: "Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JESButts, Anthony.
Contents: The Saint Brigid psalms -- Before autumn -- Song of starry-eyed children -- Intercession to Saint Brigid -- Mist and fog -- Song of earth and sky -- The landscape for growth -- Eight modes toward desire -- Thin places -- Ice palaces -- Pygmalion -- The memory of light -- Soldiers -- Fretwork -- Voices' end -- Embers -- Far from home -- Wise and innocent -- The distance from here to there --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009