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Words like love / Tanaya Winder.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.I598 W67 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winder, Tanaya.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors--21st century.
- American poetry.
- African American women--Poetry.
- African American women.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- Indians of North America--Poetry.
- Indians of North America.
- Indian women poets.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- American poetry.
- African American women.
- Physical Description:
- 100 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque, New Mexico : West End Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- In her debut collection, poet Tanaya Winder sings the joys, glories, and laments of love. Love is defined by familial, cultural, platonic, and romantic bonds in these emotional and thoughtfully rendered poems.
- Contents:
- I Lessons In Frailty
- Dear moon 11
- Reflections of the moon 12
- The weight of water 13
- In my mother's womb 15
- Lessons in frailty 17
- Handling paper dolls 18
- A story about winter 19
- One day you will encounter a house flooded 21
- The stone mother 23
- Surrender to memory 24
- Softly: how to evaporate 25
- After, life 26
- The textures of silence 27
- II Language Less Learning
- Broken/ pipelines 31
- Raw 32
- Sonnet MCLXXXI 33
- Sculpt-her 34
- The impermanencc of human sculptures 36
- Entering the age of doubt 38
- W(hole):self-medication 39
- When we banish tongues 40
- Learning to say i love you 43
- Language less learning 44
- Crazy eight: keeping pace 46
- What John wayne couldn't have known 48
- Ten little indians 50
- Sometimes i dream a reservation resides inside me 52
- Intertribal 53
- III Forbidden Acts
- Forbidden acts 56
- The war on words 57
- Love in a time of blood quantum 58
- When angels speak of love i'm pretty sure they didn't mean 60
- Patrick would never say the word love 62
- Everything you need to know about relationships can be found in a restroom stall 65
- Love on paper 67
- Psalm of surrender 68
- Somewhere being written 69
- Excavation 71
- IV The Order Of Things
- The order of things 75
- Please remember me 76
- Teaching the riff 78
- If there is something to 80
- Some kind of dying 81
- Post-flight assessment: the call of urgency 82
- Awakening: you died while i was sleeping 83
- Never meant to touch 84
- Unchained melody 85
- Measure by measure: the body begs 86
- Consider the assemblage of a longing 87
- The significance of a hanging 88
- The milky way escapes my mouth 90
- We were once two stars 92
- Winter-birds of flight 93
- Back to the beginning 94.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780991074273
- 0991074270
- OCLC:
- 922459616
- Publisher Number:
- 99967375886
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