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Ghost voices : a poem in prayer / Quincy Troupe.
Van Pelt Library PS3570.R63 G46 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Troupe, Quincy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade--Africa, West--Poetry.
- Slave trade.
- Slave trade--America--Poetry.
- African diaspora--Poetry.
- African diaspora.
- West Africa.
- America.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Chorus song: Crossing big salt water
- First take
- Arrival of ghost voices
- Transferring the dreams of the ghost voices
- The new dream of ghost voices
- Chorus: African ghost spirit crabs cross Karukera (Guadeloupe)
- Transition: Guadeloupe (Karukera) to the Gulf of Mexico
- Song of the hoodoo spirit crabs
- The new world: moving north
- Going back to Goyave, Guadeloupe: what my ears needed to hear
- Hoodoo crab spirits find new homes
- Surviving
- The enlightened awakening: the eye.
- ISBN:
- 9780810138995
- 0810138999
- OCLC:
- 1041229466
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