Etai-Eken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberson, Ed.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Etai-Eken is a legend told in a series, a cycle of poems, which is to say, told in different languages. The action of the poems in the poem is their moving in and out of the legend by the changes of access to the larger legend; an access of the present in the ancient, of the present's knowledge and experience of it.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Part 1

Dani Words Song

Song of the Son

found: Under The Mountain Wall

and the last polished stone

day blue bowl

the still water as brown

When Everyone Is Beauty Is A Time Of Day In Zulu

at having seen there was great stillness

like sight placed

everything in place was a first thing

the note of seeing the mark of sight

to the classics: jazz

papa old bones

Formula for the poem dance

The poem for the movement

when you are your nervous system

line to rest on

open the road

they come

4 Poems Trees at the Cardinal Points

Nature Poem

Part 2

a shell that scallop fan

A hammer is always brought to the building

the buildings are the triumphant figure

there is a way you can draw

putting something on the line

once about to take off

it must be that in the midst

the thousand legged

the music someone has put on

the zebra is two

any moment

how many ever

as we come to a day

coming to hear

they are crazy

place where crying begins

beasts dogs the bitter water

they sat singing in sold death

many made no sound

you see it clearly

the killed appear to the killer

green is greener in the heated air

the river was turned red

The Nature Poem

Part 3

it used to kill us

song of the assistant professors

it's put these days that

american culture is the pot

did you ever dream lucky, wake up cold in hand?

#7 Lucky Hand

an economy

the body must be made of minutes

victory dance song

the singer at the decision

soul hunters' song

you looked for signs shall i name them

the air the air

emptiness of it spirit for

she reveals herself wch is to reveal himself

fate's is the slave's

Part 4

the waves

some of the faces in these streets.

Tell me that when the water rise

once

a black man's black is his mysteries

image of man

he is called penis sticking out

Etai Etai Eken

The Mojo Against Genocide Was Taken Care Of In The Beginning

now that heart has got us killed and eaten.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9780822980827

0822980827

OCLC:

643646929