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Fuchsia / Mahtem Shiferraw ; foreword by Kwame Dawes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shiferraw, Mahtem, author.
- Series:
- African poetry book series.
- African poetry book series
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- American poetry--African American authors--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (108 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Ethiopian American Mahtem Shiferraw's Fuchsia examines conceptions of the displaced, disassembled, and nomadic self. Embedded in her poems are colors, elements, and sensations that evoke painful memories related to deep-seated remnants of trauma, war, and diaspora. Yet rooted in these losses and dangers also lie opportunities for mending and reflecting, evoking a distinct sense of hope. Elegant and traditional, the poems in Fuchsia examine what it means to both recall the past and continue onward with a richer understanding.
- Contents:
- Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Foreword by Kwame Dawes; Acknowledgments; Fuchsia; Origins & Intersections; E is for Eden; How to Peel Cactus Fruit; Something Sleeps in the Mud Beds of the Nile; Twenty Questions forYour Mother; While Weeping(Broadway & 5th); The Monster; Talks about Race; Sleeping with Hyenas; She says they comeat night . . .; Water; Polka Dot Dreams; Blood Disparities; Synesthesia; Listro (Shoe-Shiner); Pilgrimage to the Nile; Dinner with Uncles; In the Lion's Den; Daisies & Death; Something Familiarand Freezing; A Dead Man's List; Dialectics of Death
- Being a WomanRumors; Visitor; Broken Men; Song of the Dead; Awakening; Statues; Kalashnikovs; The Language of Hair; Small Tragedies; 4am; Dear Abahagoy -; Effervescence; Ode to Things Torn; Plot Line; A Secret Lull
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 22, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-8032-8590-6
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