If one of us should fall / Nicole Terez Dutton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dutton, Nicole Terez, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American poets--Poetry.

African American poets.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

77 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2012]

Summary:

"The poems are reflections on traveling and explore feelings of dislocation." -- Nicole Dutton, Press Release.

Contents:

Girl #1

Elements

Every answer is yes

The killing wait for a telephone hello

Dare in both directions

Playing the room

Gig

Almost song #1

Holding us, this away

Vertical hold

The city where

Minor key

Almost lullaby #1

Chaser

On the way

When we get there we are gone

Sunlight

Tourists #1 : approaching Gloriette at Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna

Tourists #2

Where sleep cannot

Westward, expanded definition

Desolate

The you in this poem

Night

Outskirts

Photograph with unnamable girl

Quotidian

Several blue and possible envelopes

Touch

Every song I know

Sleep is not our country

Recurrent dream of constant falling

Starlight, elsewhere

Things that will not forget us

City of candy-colored light

Many kingdoms toward you

Within these squares of American heaven

More stories for your canvas

Almost note #2

Almost note #3

Antechamber

It's all true

Landscape while waiting

Welcome home

On holiday

Devoted

You and I here

36 unexposed frames

Fledgling

Traction

Reasons why not

Woman, I am falling

Things we know about places we've been : a brief index of yes, and

Let us stay

Girl #2.

Notes:

2011 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Best Poetry, Honor, 2013

ISBN:

9780822962236

0822962233

OCLC:

794361928