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Errançities : poems / Quincy Troupe.
Van Pelt Library PS3570.R63 E77 2012
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Troupe, Quincy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 157 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis [Minn.] : Coffee House Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "Coined with the French word errance ('to wander') in mind, these poems rove from ancient Yoruba to the streets of Harlem to the tropical heat of Guadeloupe and emerge with a new vocabulary for the transformations of the physical, philosophical, and musical worlds."--P. [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- An art of lost faith
- When time was young
- Las Cruces, New Mexico revisited
- Going back to voices lost in the past
- Historic attitudes in birds (& humans)
- Where have they all gone
- Harlem: circa 1983-1984
- Amnesia #1
- Amnesia #2
- Amnesia #3
- After seeing an image in Ashland, Oregon
- On a Sunday
- Mix-y-uppy memory
- What some old men keep telling me
- A hard quick rainstorm in Manhattan
- Sounds of New York City
- 2002 Manhattan snapshot: the war on terror
- A few questions posed
- Foggy morning in Port Townsend
- The allusion of seduction
- Searching for a word
- Praise song for Sekou
- Taps for Freddie
- Miles's last tune live, August 25th, 1991
- A poem of return: circa 2008
- Michael Jackson & the arc of love
- Thoughts on a Sunday morning in Goyave
- Goyave night scene
- Sitting on my veranda, facing the Caribbean Sea
- A veil of transparent rain
- A March day in Goyave
- A day in the life of King Rooster & his son
- Short-term America
- Mad Max
- Haiti haiku
- Earthquake: Haiti
- Hurricanes
- Lusting after mangoes
- Searching for mangoes: second take
- Listening to black birds
- Haiku song
- A vision
- Seven/elevens
- What's the real deal here
- Errançities
- The mystery man in the black hat speaks
- Wooden mouths
- The legend of Pablo Escobar
- Just think about it
- Looking into the future
- Eye travel back into memory
- Untitled dreamscape
- A man walks in slow motion
- Connections #2
- View from the 48th floor of the New World Trade Center Building #7
- The last stormy breaths of Irene
- Sentences.
- ISBN:
- 9781566892834
- 156689283X
- 1566892767
- 9781566892766
- OCLC:
- 709681135
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