Bluest nude : poems / Ama Codjoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Codjoe, Ama, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

91 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022.

Summary:

"Ama Codjoe's highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully awakened sensual life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Blueprint

On Seeing and Being Seen

Two Girls Bathing

Marigolds of Fire

Labor

Poem After Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

Diamondback

"After the ___________, I yearned to be reckless. To smash"

Detail from "Poem After Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima"

Primordial Mirror

Le Sacre duprintemps

"After the ____________, I had the urge to dance"

II. She Said

III. Posing Nude

Burying Seeds

At the Fish House

Why I Left the Garden

"After the ____________, I mothered my mother"

Facing Off

"After the ____________, time turned like a mood ring"

Resembling Flowers Resembling Weeds

Of Being in Motion

"After the laughter subsided the crying kept after we held hands"

Heaven as Olympic Spa

IV. Bluest Nude

Bathers with a Turtle

Slow Drag with Branches of Pine

Lotioning My Mother's Back

Aubade

A Family Woven Like Night through Trees

Etymology of a Mood

Poem After an Iteration of a Painting by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Destroyed by the Artist Herself

Head on Ice #5

After a Year of Forgetting

"There is a scar near my right eye no lover ever noticed".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Codjoe, Ama, 1979- Bluest nude.

ISBN:

9781571315427

157131542X

OCLC:

1290245770