If one of us should fall / Nicole Terez Dutton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dutton, Nicole Terez, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American poets--Poetry.

African American poets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2011 Cave Canem Poetry Prize "Nicole Terez Dutton's fierce and formidable debut throbs with restless beauty and a lyrical undercurrent that is both empowered and unpredictable. Every poem is unsettling in that delicious way that changes and challenges the reader. There is nothing here that does not hurtle forward." -Patricia Smith Chosen by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association as a 2013 Honor Book Winner for poetry.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

"Winner of the 2011 Cave Canem Poetry Prize."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822978411

0822978415

OCLC:

891383555