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Ostinado Vamps: Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coleman, Wanda
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women poets.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ostinato Vamps is Wanda Coleman's first book of poetry since the demise of her longtime publisher, Black Sparrow Press. It continues and enlarges the traits that have been her hallmark for more than three decades: a fierce adherence to the truth and a language so musical one can almost hear the blues line underneath her stanzas.Linguistically daring, lyrically breathtaking, stylistically bold, these poems both explore familiar territory and shatter stereotypes. Life is difficult, often unfair, but it belongs to the living, as Coleman reminds us in no uncertain terms. Racing between an earthy eroticism and fatalistic despair, filled with humor and tragedy, these poems are alive. They breathe. They challenge us even as they reward us for seeking the truth.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- I. Red Noir
- Revenants
- Yellowed Parchment
- Nipples Like Thorns Piercing Thoughts
- Relocation on the Edge
- 78 rpms on a Piper's Dream
- Wichita Down West Home
- Cold Meat &
- Three Empty Shells
- Lady Sings the Blues 1969
- Thirty Seconds over America
- Requiem for a Nest
- Almost Pregnant
- Meanwhile in San Francisco
- Art &
- Embellishment
- Cool Cats Snap Spats
- Things Go Sour
- Red Noir
- Red Eye &
- Black Beans
- Los Angeles Nocturne
- II. Ostinato Vamps
- Broken Rhythms
- Jazz Theory 101
- Dream Fever
- Ostinato Vamp
- Plum Hunger
- Soul Traveler
- Mahalia Jones
- The Boys of Loco Heights
- Fragments of an Essay
- Straight Out of Autumn
- Likes Tangerine Sushi
- A Second Death
- After the Rampage
- Designer Bag and All
- Translations from the Night
- The African beneath the American
- Faruk Yellow
- Revisiting Fear and Memphis
- White Wall Syndrome-A Study
- Lorde Cento
- The Woman in the Mirror
- Darwinian Ebb
- III. Two Fugues &
- a Prayer
- Night Widow Fugue
- Sorceress of Muntu
- Prayer for America Reborn
- IV. The Weighing of My Heart
- Fool's Progress
- Gone Exits
- Sour Apples
- the history of my body
- Slave Driven
- Olio Intaglio
- About Our Unborn
- Baptism
- The Museum of You
- The Weighing of My Heart
- Peace
- Passing through the Blood
- Exoteric
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- ISBN:
- 9780822979876
- 082297987X
- OCLC:
- 891383446
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