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Red beans and ricely yours / poems by Mona Lisa Saloy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saloy, Mona Lisa, author.
- Series:
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- T. S. Eliot Prize ; v.2005
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- New Orleans (La.)--Poetry.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (122 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These narrative poems tell the day-to-day lives of Black New Orleans and the rare magic in the culture. Vibrant with local history and color, these poems have a Black sensibility that reaches beyond boundaries, with folk sayings turned into polished verse.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Red Beans and Ricely Southern; Word Works; Back on the Block; This Poem is for You My Sister; My Mother's the Daughter of a Slave; For Frank Fitch; Southern Sisters; Frontliners; Louisiana Log; A Few Words on My Words; I Had Forgotten the Loud; Shotgun Life; Shotgun Life I: Home; Shotgun Life II: Sonnet; Shotgun Life III: Today; Shotgun Life IV: Section 8, 2003; Shotgun Life V: Remembering D; Shotgun Life VI: Roots, 200 Years, Louisiana Purchase; Shotgun Life VII: Old School, Circa 1960; Red Beans and Ricely Creole Quarters
- Nat King Cole and Black Mona LisasMy Creole Daddy I; Daddy's Philosphy II; Daddy Poem III: New Orleans Then; Daddy Poem IV; For Daddy V; On My Block; Heritage; Parochial Product; My Cousin My Brother; French Market Morning; French Market Friend; Recycling Neighborhood Style; Villanelle for Voodoo; The Ballad of Marie LaVeau; The Last Mile; A Taste of New Orleans in Haiku; Summer in New Orleans; On Writing; Black Creole Love; This Afternoon...; Email: Hey Now; Distant Lover Poem; When We...; The First 30 Days; Charm Fails Death; Dueces Running Wild; Telling Poem; Like Langston Hughes Did
- Red Beans and Ricely BlackSong for Elder Sisters; Mother with Me on Canal Street, New Orleans; For My Brothers; jim crow; End Notes; The N Word; We've Come This Far; Glossary; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61248-043-8
- OCLC:
- 607825637
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