Sing this one back to me : with special guest appearance by Papa Susso / Bob Holman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holman, Bob, 1948-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

130 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press : Distributor, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 2013.

Summary:

From West Africa to NYC, the oral tradition comes alive through the collaborative storytelling of Holman and legendary griot Papa Susso. An epilogue to Bob Holman's travels to West Africa to discover the roots of spoken word, hip hop, and the oral tradition, this collection is a celebration of language and its power I to make us see. Building on his transcription of the Griot poems sung to him by West African legend Papa Susso, Holman uses verse as another lens for experiencing visual art ("Van Gogh's Violin") and as a vehicle for sharing his own intimate history. The landscape shifts, and grief makes itself evident, as do those very necessary, sneaky, ecstatic reminders of life's continuing possibility for joy. Book jacket.

Contents:

[Tide of Poem] 11

Fuck Off, I'm a Fuckin' Welsh Fuckin' Learned (That's the tide) 12

Ffwciwch Oma, Dwin Ffwcin' Dysgwr Ffwcin' Gymraeg! (Dyna'r teitl) 14

Van Gogh's Violin (or, Painters! Poets!)

Van Gogh's Violin 18

Rothkos 24

Urdu Poems 30

Immediately Poems (Rilke & Kandinsky) 37

Jeliya! (or, Griot Poems, As Sung by Papa Susso to Bob Holman)

How Kora Was Born 57

Jeliya! 59

Kaira Peace 61

Allah L'a Ke 63

Kulafaso! Celebration for the Feast of Feasts 67

Kumbija Kantaba 69

The Loving Father's Song 71

Manjugulong! 73

So Lo Lay 75

Mokoiro-for Haiti 77

Tara 79

Memory Made Real (or, You Are No Longer Here to Wash Your Hair)

Forget Yesterday 84

Born Orphaned 85

We Met in Managua 93

A Day 94

One Night City Light 95

My Parents 97

The Opening of the Big Museum 100

Florida 101

4E59.5 102

Washing Your Hair 103

The Word Mystery 104

Love 106

In Passing 107

To Lisanne (Birth of First Grandchild) 108

What Death Means 109

What Next 109

Please Don't Die Yet 110

Movie Theater Alone You 111

Time Is a Number 112

My Children Are My Poems 113

Poem for My Daughters in the New Year 114

In Daisy's Kitchen, Moose Underfoot 115

Day for Sophie and Nick, Epithalamium 116

My Heart Is a Real Thing 117

Midsummer Kupala 119

Sing This One Back to Me 121.

ISBN:

9781566893251

1566893259

OCLC:

811337459