The kitchen-dweller's testimony / Ladan Osman ; foreword by Kwame Dawes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osman, Ladan, author.

Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- author of introduction, etc.

Series:

African poetry book series.

African Poetry Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman's speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injur

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Series Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword by Kwame Dawes""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Silhouette""; ""Epigraph""; ""I""; ""Ordinary Heaven""; ""Words We Lost in the Water""; ""Unsolicited Witness""; ""To Abel""; ""Sugar""; ""Section 8""; ""The Key""; ""First Red Dress""; ""Admonitions""; ""Twigs""; ""Verse of Hairs""; ""My Father Drops His Larynx""; ""Denotation""; ""Connotation""; ""Parable of the Leaf""; ""How to Make a Shadow""; ""II""; ""Intangible Quality""; ""Women Brewing""; ""Diviner of Teacups""

""The Kitchen-Dweller Presents Evidence""""Trouble""; ""Her House Is the Middle East""; ""That Which Scatters and Breaks Apart""; ""Invocation""; ""The Kitchen-Dweller�s Interlude""; ""The Kitchen-Dweller Testifies""; ""Desertion""; ""The Offended Tongue""; ""When the Fire Is Not Enough""; ""Clearing the Land""; ""Situations Wanted""; ""The Figures""; ""Convoluted Mattress""; ""Water""; ""For the Woman Whose Love Is a Bird of Passage""; ""The Man Who Puts Dirt on His Head""; ""III""; ""The Glass Images""; ""To the Angel of Accounts on a Holy Night""; ""Tonight""; ""Visitant""

""The Pilgrims""""Woman, Ego, Shadow""; ""The Woman in the Field""; ""Gnats""; ""Apparition One, Apparition Two""; ""Amber Doll""; ""Ken""; ""Hotel Party""; ""Princess Di in an Afterlife""; ""My Brother Receives His Kingdom under a Tree""; ""Proud Flesh""; ""The Albatross Holds a Note in Her Bill""; ""The Trumpet Testifies""; ""Following the Horn�s Call""; ""The Beetle""; ""A Dove Sings for Young Lovers""; ""Western Gate""; ""About Ladan Osman""; ""Series List""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803278578

0803278578

9780803278592

0803278594