Everybody's jonesin' for something / Indigo Moor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moor, Indigo, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 99 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Lincoln, Nebraska] : The Backwaters Press, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Everybody's Jonesin' for Something takes a hard look at the darker side of our search for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, especially what we lose, what we leave behind, and what strange beauty we uncover"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Love Letter to Dr. Ford from the Patriarchy

Trayvon Martin Disappears on Stage

The New Math

Extinction Event

All Night...

...Jazz...

... from the Sisyphus Club

Creole Rumspringa

The Fortress of First and Last Thoughts

Christ Is Summoned to the House of the Broken Ladder

Mamie Till & the Minotaur

What Was True and Not So. And Yet, Again...

Unforgettable

Birds in Flight

Genealogy

Guardians

Fermi Paradox for Black Nerds

Happiness

The Wandering Jew Drunk Dials God

The Party Crashers of Paradise

Exiled to America

Oppenheimer's Badass Cat

Joshua in the New World

Frac/Tured

Finder of Lost Sheep

Woods to Grow Out Of

Red and Yellow Quartet

Unjumping the Broom

Easter Morning Prayer

Hunter's Moon

The Saint of McClatchy Park

Veterans of Foreign Wars

How We Got Here from There

Blackberries

Maisey Gets a Washing Machine

Pretty Boy Sanchez

American Bataan

Lost in the World Machine

Catching a Cotton Ball.

Notes:

"The Backwaters Prize in Poetry honorable mention"

ISBN:

9781496222701

1496222709

OCLC:

1192303140