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Mahogany / Erica Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Erica, author.
- Series:
- Wesleyan poetry.
- Wesleyan Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grief--Poetry.
- Grief.
- Poetry--Women authors.
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "The third book in a trilogy revising the confessional, mahogany uses the music of Diana Ross as an emotive/sonic echo into which the poet sings the realities of being a grown, Black woman, losing everyone you ever loved, and still surviving, finding your calling and learning to love your beautiful, broken self"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- teak
- baby, baby
- like you do
- crying baby
- think it over
- so satisfied
- your lips are touching mine
- my mind and soul
- make it sound soft
- mama can't help me
- give and take
- let me be
- a hurt i can't control
- i had no name
- yes, i will
- as there are stars above
- ain't no river
- make this world
- // litmus
- at last i taste the honey
- baby, don't you know
- better than i
- i'm like a woman who once knew splendor
- the sky to shelter me
- it ain't enough
- pray for the lonely
- the signs of misery
- we had yesterday
- ain't that easy
- all i feel is strong
- greyhound-bound
- to keep my self respect
- love me
- burn me
- the wonderful
- i don't want to live
- never measure love by time
- i believe in fairytales
- abundance of light
- // mahogany
- my spirit was free
- sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet love
- your sympathy
- changed the plan
- guide in my pocket for fools
- conditions
- the rules
- i'm here
- respectfully i say to thee
- the best
- i want the world to know
- a defense that i sometimes use
- like the little children
- royalties
- i'm doing ok
- i'm no great pretender
- let this be
- when i was young
- i can't free a person from their chains
- i feel so brokenhearted
- acknowledgments
- project notes
- about the author.
- Notes:
- "The third book in a trilogy."
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780819500786
- 081950078X
- OCLC:
- 1377283573
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