Target practice / poems by Carvens Lissaint.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lissaint, Carvens, author.

Contributor:

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

71 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Penmanship trade edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Penmanship Books, 2019.

Contents:

Father's Face Schools Me p. 11

Saturday Evening Part I p. 12

What Is Grief, But A Sky Decorated in Red & Blue p. 13

When Building a Coffin p. 15

They Shootin p. 16

The Way It Should Go p. 18

Haitian Handbook p. 19

When Being A Law-Abiding Citizen Fails You p. 27

Not Not Not Not Not Not Not Not p. 28

The Deadening p. 30

Blasting p. 31

A Lecture on First Generation Speech p. 33

The Great White Way p. 34

Black Scholar Blues p. 38

So We on A Crowded Train Platform & I Brush By Her p. 39

Saturday Evening Part II p. 40

When Resisting p. 41

You May Think It's Redundant p. 42

125th Street p. 43

The Way It Should Go p. 44

Harlem p. 45

10 Things I Want to Say to The Old White Woman Who Touched My Wife's Hair During Our Beautiful Anniversary Dinner p. 49

I Want to Count It All Joy p. 61

I Got You p. 62

Ode to The Head Nod p. 63

Saturday Evening Part III p. 64

The Way It Should Go p. 65

If We Must Die p. 66.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

1947312006

9781947312005

OCLC:

1083225138

Publisher Number:

99980926567