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Ostinato vamps : poems / Wanda Coleman.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.O47447 O87 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coleman, Wanda.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Women authors.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 115 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- "Ostinato Vamps is Wanda Coleman's first book of poetry since the demise of her longtime publisher, Black Sparrow Press. In continues and enlarges the traits that have been her hallmark for more than three decades: a fierce adherence to the truth and a language so musical one can almost hear the blues line underneath her stanzas. Linguistically daring, lyrically breathtaking, stylistically bold, these poems both explore familiar territory and shatter stereotypes. Life is difficult, often unfair, but it belongs to the living, as Coleman reminds us in no uncertain terms. Racing between an earthy eroticism and fatalistic despair, filled with humor and tragedy, these poems are alive. They breathe. They challenge us even as they reward us for seeking the truth.
- Contents:
- I. Red Noir
- Revenants 3
- Yellowed Parchment 4
- Nipples Like Thorns Piercing Thoughts 5
- Relocation on the Edge 6
- 78 rpms on a Piper's Dream 7
- Wichita Down West Home 8
- Cold Meat & Three Empty Shells 9
- Lady Sings the Blues 1969 11
- Thirty Seconds over America 13
- Requiem for a Nest 14
- Almost Pregnant 15
- Meanwhile in San Francisco 17
- Art & Embellishment 18
- Cool Cats Snap Spats 19
- Things Go Sour 20
- Red Noir 22
- Red Eye & Black Beans 23
- Los Angeles Nocturne 24
- II. Ostinato Vamps
- Broken Rhythms 29
- Jazz Theory 101 30
- Dream Fever 31
- Ostinato Vamp 32
- Plum Hunger 33
- Soul Traveler 34
- Mahalia Jones 36
- The Boys of Loco Heights 37
- Fragments of an Essay 38
- Straight Out of Autumn 40
- Likes Tangerine Sushi 41
- A Second Death 42
- After the Rampage 43
- Designer Bag and All 44
- Translations from the Night 46
- The African beneath the American 48
- Faruk Yellow 49
- Revisiting Fear and Memphis 50
- White Wall Syndrome
- A Study 51
- Lorde Cento 53
- The Woman in the Mirror 54
- Darwinian Ebb 56
- III. Two Fugues & a Prayer
- Night Widow Fugue 59
- Sorceress of Muntu 74
- Prayer for America Reborn 90
- IV. The Weighing of My Heart
- Fool's Progress 95
- Gone Exits 96
- Sour Apples 97
- The history of my body 98
- Slave Driven 99
- Olio Intaglio 100
- About Our Unborn 103
- Baptism 104
- The Museum of You 105
- The Weighing of My Heart 107
- Peace 111
- Passing through the Blood 112
- Exoteric 113.
- ISBN:
- 0822958333
- OCLC:
- 52958083
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