We are not wearing helmets : poems / Cheryl Boyce-Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyce-Taylor, Cheryl, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 89 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"These political love poems challenge the injustices of ageism, racism, isolation, and oppression with bravery and kindness"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. We Are Not Wearing Helmets

Devouring the Light, 1968

First Amendment Rights

Landay for Fannie Lou Hamer

We Are Not Wearing Helmets

Lessons: #45

Harvest

No More War Poems

Pigeon Point, Tobago

Crossing Rivers

Cry

Huevos Rancheros and Frozen Margaritas

Lottery: Brooklyn

Red White Blue

II. Crack on Our Front Door

When Sky Fell

Huffy

Call Me Monkey

June Plums

Leo

Road to Banjul

Lemon Verbena

Moonflower

III. Glory

Glory

Mama

Firstborn

What to Do on the First Anniversary of Your Son's Death

Tenth-Grade Fly

Heirloom Corn

For Alem

IV. Salute to the Women Who Lifted Me

A Woman Speaks

1962, Everybody Pretty

For the Love of Tennyson & Langston

On McKinley Drive

Last European Trip I Took with Mother

Change Purse Filled with Foreign Coins

You Braid Your Hair

The Home You Left Long Ago

A Cento for Winnie Mandela

Ntozake's Crimson Orchids

Rodlyn's Roots

End of Lent

Howl for Maya Angelou

Maya Calling June Jordan

Adrienne

Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor

V. Let's Make a Drum

Brave

Call Her Delphinium

Revolution

Beloved Country

I Prefer

On Repeat

Praise for Her Noisy Laughter

How to Make Art

Trade

Saturn Returning

I Am Nothing Compared To

Here: In Our Time of War

Dreamscape.

Notes:

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - Poetry, Finalist, 2023

ISBN:

9780810144231

0810144239

OCLC:

1243350072

Publisher Number:

99989982835