How God ends us / DéLana R.A. Dameron ; foreword by Elizabeth Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dameron, DéLana R. A., author.

Contributor:

Alexander, Elizabeth, writer of foreword.

Series:

South Carolina Poetry Book Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poetic conversations with a God whose omnipotence brings both peace and uncertainty

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Lament; I; All Hallows' Eve; It Is Written; Body, an Elegy; Oiling the Joints; The Last Touch; Cuspidor; Communion; Backseat Savior; Black Saw-Wing; On Seeking the Other 2/5 Up North; Meditation; Questions from the Jamaican Children; Ad in the Chicago Defender; The Leaving; Consider This; II; Excavation; Inheritance; My Grandfather Wouldn't Know Me If He Saw; Underneath the Brown; I Heard It, Once; Parable of the Hungry Missionary; To the Man Whose Name Is "Paradise"; The City of Discarded Umbrellas; Even the Clouds Came to Gather

Heartland of Columbia Nursing HomeIsraelites; Transfiguration of Jesus in Jamaica; Condition: If the Garden of Eden Was in Africa; To the Black Girl in Charleston, SC, Waving the Confederate Flag; Missionaries Lead the Children in First Steps; Lynching Mobs; Tree's Memory; Prelude to Death; Requiem for the Gulf Coast; Buff Bay, Jamaica; Too Late to Uncapture; Divining; III; Mala Is for Meditation; Landslide in La Jolla; Bless; Ode to the Camel-Hair Brush; Closer to Knowing; Portrait of a Seafarer; The Body as a House; The Space Between; The Red Thread; How Quickly the Sun Comes

Wednesday Night Fish FryThursday Morning; Joe Turner's Come; No Longer Ashamed; Flame; This Sacrifice, This Love

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, University of South Carolina."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613809414

9781282166349

1282166344

9781611171709

1611171709

OCLC:

910069642