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Build yourself a boat / Camonghne Felix.
Van Pelt Library PS3606.E3878 A6 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Felix, Camonghne, author.
- Series:
- BreakBeat poets series
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Black--Poetry.
- Women, Black.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019.
- Summary:
- This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
- Contents:
- Lost poem 4: Rx
- Contouring the Flattening
- Cutting w/ JB
- Imagine??? My sister an astronaut???
- Google search keywords:
- Things the block taught me
- White house
- Statement from Camonghne Felix on the murders of Jesse Washington, Stephon Clark and her attempt to understand the psychology of lynching:
- Thank God I can't drive
- Zimmerman testimonies: Day 1
- Zimmerman testimonies: Day 2
- Trap queen
- On entropy
- Statement of being lonely vs. alone
- Lost poem #5: I won't even ask why
- Or, it's all in my head
- Lesson, unmitigated
- No relief
- DISCLAIMER
- Mirror talk
- Police
- Grocery
- Sleeping on Adderall
- Zimmerman testimonies: Day 4
- Tonya Harding's fur fox
- No shade, though
- "But in what way does the blending of two slightly different cells bring about such a renewal of life?" -Freud
- After the abortion, an older white Planned Parenthood volunteer asks if my husband is here & squeezes my thigh and says, "You made the right decision," and then "Look what could happen if Trump were president, I mean, you might not even be here."
- Beer pong
- Zimmerman testimonies: Day 5
- When I say the hood made me, I mean:
- Willing in the Orisha
- "But there were times when you offered your consent with older men. You chose them & you were not afraid. Why not?" -Freud
- Yes, it is possible.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 9781608466160
- 1608466167
- 9781608466115
- 1608466116
- OCLC:
- 1050954837
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