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Come see about me, Marvin / brian g gilmore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilmore, Brian G., 1962- author.
- Series:
- Made in Michigan writers series.
- Made in Michigan writers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electronic books.0.
- Local Subjects:
- Electronic books.0.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (105 pages).
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "come see about me, marvin is accessible, honest poetry about and for real people. In the collection, brian g. gilmore seeks to invite the reader into a fantastical dialogue between himself and Marvin Gaye-two black men who were born in the nation's capital, but who moved to the Midwest for professional ambitions. In trying to acclimate himself to a new job in a new place-a place that seemed so different from the home he had always known-gilmore often looked to Marvin Gaye as an example for how to be. These poems were derived as a means of coping in a strange land. The book is divided into four sections, beginning with section one, "love that will shelter you," and features poems about dealing with life in Michigan as it is in reality. Sections two and three, "nowhere to hide" and "no ordinary pain," include poems about the brutality of the Midwest and some of the historical realities as gilmore came to understand them. The final section, "let your love come shining through," attempts to invoke hope in poetry. come see about me, marvin is gilmore's answer to life's perplexing issues, with Marvin Gaye as the perfect vehicle to explore these ideals. Readers of poetry and lovers of Motown will embrace this love letter to a local legend"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 1. love that will shelter y ou
- distant lover #1 (my michigan bed remix-for ellen g)
- mardi gras in east lansing
- detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)
- distant lover #2
- ontario, may 2012 (for elanna)
- michigan haiku #2 (for j.d. porter)
- red rooster bar, idlewild, michigan (for jeff &
- tamm)
- winter
- 2. nowhere to hide
- distant lover #3
- grand rapids (for k.k.)
- o canada
- chicago (for haki)
- "reach out,"-cooley high, version, final scene (for levi stubbs &
- the four tops)
- portrait of black woman, exit 64, toledo, w/beautiful afro
- kalamazoo boogie
- the negro in minneapolis (for prince &
- philando castile)
- view from paul laurence dunbar home, dayton, ohio
- denny mcclain, in garden city, michigan (for scott &
- dan)
- the lansing negro
- ingham county
- 3. no ordinary pain
- distant lover #4 (for leon ware)
- inkster blues (for greg)
- detroit sketch #1 (for m.l.)
- the road to flint, michigan
- flint river blues
- mason, michigan, housing court (evictions #1)
- evictions #2
- eviction #3 (a lawyer's solo)
- eviction #4 (lansing court)
- living for the city (for stevie wonder)
- children of the reagan democrats
- at malcolm x street, lansing, michigan (for earl little*)
- distant lover #5
- grand rapids, civil war reenactment
- confederate flag, michigan #1
- ann arbor (alpha poem)
- when i see the exit sign for cleveland on the ohio turnpike now (alpha poem)
- yellow school bus
- confederate flag #2
- 4. let your love come shining through
- distant lover #6
- small town folklore
- guns, bats &
- books
- robert hayden, university of michigan campus (a skinny-for truth thomas)
- distant lover #7
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814347232
- 0814347231
- OCLC:
- 1114976397
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