The she said dialogues : flesh memory / Akilah Oliver ; [foreword by Tracie Morris].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliver, Akilah, author.

Contributor:

Morris, Tracie, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity--Poetry.

Black people.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Black people--Race identity.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 68 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Nightboat Books, [2021]

Summary:

"In her original author's note to the 1999 edition, Akilah Oliver writes,"What I am trying to do in these poems is investigate the non-linear synapses between desire, memory, blackness (as both a personal identity and a non-essentialist historical notion), sexuality and language." the she said dialogues: flesh memory proves to be not only still timely twenty years later, but essential reading for understanding intersectional politics and poetics in our current moment."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Another Morning, She Says

First Take Before Sunrise, She Said

Gently She Tucks Her Hand Under My Chin, She Says, Don't Be Afraid, Your Demons Are Your Friends

Sin And Salvation Are Twins

Once Upon A Time, She Said

Think Of The Words As Angels Singing In Your Vagina, She Said

Handing Me The Needle, She Said Here, Make Your Wish

Several Paths To Yourself, She Said

It Doesn't Matter How You Fall Into Light, She Said

I Think, She Said, You'd Be Happier If You Could Remember A Wise Saying

Sickness Can Be Salvation, She Said

So, She Said, This Is What We've Been Missing

We Forget, She Said

She Said, Let The Little Squeals Assemble

Well Why Wouldn't You, She Said

She Said Loss, Lost

It's Just A Mental Journey

Cross The Great Divide, She Said

She Is More Than Useful Fiction

Summon, She Said, Her By The Name You Loved

Pick Any Curtis Mayfield Song To Accompany This

She Said, Talk To Grandmother In Cycles

She Said

Is You Is Or Is You Ain't

Under The Bedspread, Those Smells, Maybe Nobody Will Notice

So Where Do You Enter Memory

Lover, She Says, Dare You Hold My Sorrow

She Says

Saturday, She Says

She Said, Meditate On Rage

Speak In The Two Voices

Tell Me A Story, She Says

Come To Me When You Can't Speak She Said

She Said, Again

The Grass Is Always Greener, She Said

She Said, Own It

She Said, Don't Give Up

Tressles Of Hair, She Said

She Said, Talk To Grandmother In Cycles: Cycle 3

She Said, Sometimes Love's Rage Will Just Eat You Alive, Won't It?

Cross The Line, She Said

She Said, Treasure It

She Said, Heather

The Absence Of The Lover Makes Her Who She Is

Lover: I

Lover: II.

Notes:

"The she said dialogues: flesh memory was originally published by Smokeproof Press/Erudite Fangs Editions in 1999.

ISBN:

1643620347

9781643620343

OCLC:

1144097877

Publisher Number:

99987412652