Reparations now! : poems / by Ashley M Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Ashley M., 1990- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

69 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Spartanburg, SC : Hub City Press, [2021]

Summary:

"What is the price of a life, a stolen culture, a stolen heart? In formal and nontraditional poems, Reparations Now! asks for what is owed. Moving between voices and through intersecting histories, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones offers perspectives both sharp and compassionate, exploring the difficulties of navigating our relationships with ourselves and others. From the murder of Mary Turner in 1918 to a case of infidelity to the oppressive nationalist movement of the present, Jones holds us accountable"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Hymn Of Our Jesus & The Holy Tow Truck

Mary, Don't You Weep, Or, Mary Turner Resurrected

Stephon Don't You Moan, Or, To Serve And Protect

The Kid Next To Me At The 7pm Showing Of The Avengers Has A Toy Gun

In My Dream, I'm Shot Again And Again

Soul Power / James Brown Time Loop

The Horns, According To James Brown

What Lives In The If In Al Green's "Simply Beautiful"

Home Security

Meteor Shower

Photosynthesis

She Is Beauty, She Is Grace

Poem In Which I Am Too Political To Read At Your School

The Hymn Of The Dogwood Tree

All Y'all Really From Alabama

Manifest Destiny

Excess

In Freeland, All The Beaches Are Owned

Sharks!

Sonnet For The Man Screaming Himself Into Existence At Bellevue ER

Love In The Time Of Pandemic

Ainteenem

Hostile Environment

God Made My Whole Body

A Poem About The Body

For The Men Who Made Sure I Knew They Did Not Love Me

In Critique Of Black Female Demonization, Not Miscegenation

Words With Friends

Bestiary Of Bad Kisses

Love Note: Surely

It Is Entirely Possible For A Black Girl To Be Loved

Summer Vacation In The Subjunctive

Contrapuntal With Gladys Knight And Infidelity

The Self Returns, A Year Later

Aubade With Lalah Hathaway And Rachelle Ferrell

Aubade: My Mother Calls Home

Sonnet With Kanye West And Late Uncle

Greatest Nigger Who Ever Lived

Reparations Now, Reparations Tomorrow, Reparations Forever

I Find The Earring That Broke Loose From My Ear The Night A White Woman Told Me The World Would Always Save Her

I Cannot Talk About The South Without Talking About Black Women

Friendly Skies, Or, Black Woman Speaks Herself Into God

An Experiential And Intellectual Discourse On The N-Word

Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane No. 106

Redlining

Oil Change

Catalog Of Things In Which There Is Still God.

ISBN:

9781938235863

193823586X

OCLC:

1237649189