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A more perfect Union / Teri Ellen Cross Davis.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.R6794 M67 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cross Davis, Teri Ellen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- African American women--Poetry.
- African American women.
- Race relations.
- African American mothers.
- United States.
- African American mothers--Poetry.
- United States--Race relations--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 69 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Poems at once angry and tender explore motherhood, race, sexuality, and a Black woman's complicated relationship with her country"-- Provided by publisher.
- "In the tender, sensual, and bracing poems of a more perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis reclaims the experience of living and mothering while Black in contemporary America, centering Black women's pleasure by wresting it away from the relentless commodification of the White gaze. Cross Davis deploys stunning emotional range to uplift the mundane, interrogate the status quo, and ultimately create her own goddesses. Parenting, lust, household chores--all are fair game for Cross Davis's gimlet eye. Whether honoring her grief for Prince's passing while examining his role in midwifing her sexual awakening or contemplating travel and the gamble of being Black across this wide world, these poems tierlessly seek a path out of the labryinth to hope"--Back cover
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Goddess of Blood
- Black Berries
- A Black Woman Gets a Window Seat on Aer Lingus
- The Goddess of Scars
- Bad Girls Album Cover
- White Barbie
- 3939 Strandhill Road, Cleveland, Ohio
- The Goddess of Parenting
- Co-sleeping
- Baby Girl
- Don't Act Like A
- Keep
- Knowledge of the Brown Body
- Knuckle Head
- pt. II The Goddess of Interracial Dating
- Prince Album Cover
- Houses of the Holy Led Zeppelin Album Cover
- A Black Woman Learns Ireland's History by Bus
- The First Gospel of Prince
- Vousetesici
- The Second Gospel of Prince
- The Goddess of Lust
- Her 21st Summer
- The Third Gospel of Prince
- The Goddess of Idolatry
- Love Letter
- "Don't Disturb This Groove"
- Ode to Orgasms
- Slow Drag
- Escape Ladder
- pt. III The Goddess of Anger
- Lola Visits the Underworld
- Backup (An Ode to Weathering)
- When I Am the Only One in the Room
- The Goddess of Cleaning
- Partus sequitur ventrem
- The Account of Katie Mae
- The Goddess of the South
- Thank You Jesus
- Crescendo
- This Poem Suggests Revolution
- A more perfect Union.
- Notes:
- "Winner of the 2019 The Ohio State University Press/"The Journal" Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize"
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cross Davis, Teri Ellen. More perfect Union.
- ISBN:
- 9780814257784
- 081425778X
- OCLC:
- 1191708733
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