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No sweet without brine : poems / Cynthia Manick.
Van Pelt Library PS3613.A5452 N6 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manick, Cynthia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Race identity--Poetry.
- Black people.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Gender identity.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 131 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Cynthia Manick's latest is a playlist of everyday life, introverted thoughts, familial bonds, and social commentary. In piercing language, she traces the circle of life for a narrator who dares to exist between youthful remembrances and adulthood realities. Each poem in No Sweet Without Brine is a reminder that a hint of sorrow makes the celebration and recognition of the glory of Blackness in all ways, and through all people, that much sweeter."
- Contents:
- Tanka for a beginning
- Self-portraits and other skies. Always use a gold crayon to color yourself in
- Self-portrait no. 1 (on becoming light)
- Ode to JET Magazine (when you be a rainbow with a streak of black)
- I try to imagine them smitten
- MTA transit exam attempt #4
- Tanka suite on survival
- Litany for my fears and questions
- Is this your sky or mine?
- Eintou for possibility
- I learned to be a lady
- Urban tumbleweed
- Pretending is like breathing
- How you livin?
- 3 am and the moon is curled like a "c"
- I wish the trees could sway to Marvin and Aretha
- Self-portrait no. 5 (Phoenix and lullabies)
- I want us living, not just alive. Rx for little Black girls
- Livin flush
- Girls like me are made of...
- Baby, what's your favorite body part?
- Dear future body (keep your skin thickk)
- A particular truth about grown folks' grits
- Self-portrait no. 7 (the other possible self)
- Introvert confessions
- What answers can I give to the thing that I am
- When I tell our story of bees and vinegar
- Wishes for Black folk in Woody Allen movies
- Red salutations
- Endangered species
- No graveside flowers
- Requiem for sea and chains
- B-side testimonials
- In my heaven
- Sin is a good hymn. My Calm app lets me sleep with Idris Elba
- Recipe for keeping a man
- I want to see Black love on television
- What can grow in the dark
- Self-portrait no. 9 (what the mirror sees)
- Praise for Luke Cage's skin and starshine
- Something like gratitude to the girl on the 5 train
- Dear Superman
- List poem for things I try to love...
- After that night: Medusa calls out Poseidon
- Dear sunflowers who congregate without a permit
- Elegy to a portrait of us where you're smiling and I'm looking away
- Message pulled from a bottle at sea
- Dear spring,
- Last night inside my blood
- We make sin a good hymn
- If we should, who will fly after us. a white co-worker asks if my family sits down to have frank discussions about race
- Things I will tell my children
- One vow after the other
- A taste of blue
- The way the world holds you
- There are no unsacred spaces
- Self-portrait no. 13 (what's passed down in the making)
- When you kiss a smoker
- I could be a boxer
- #45 presidential vibrations
- Notes toward a poem on self-care...
- Seeking language for peaches or joy
- Self-portrait no. 11 (climatology in flux)
- Things I can't say in this book
- All of my rejected and broken poems come together and form a gang
- Self-portrait no. 15 (interrogation under the moon).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780063244306
- 0063244306
- OCLC:
- 1356619045
- Publisher Number:
- 99993854333
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