The orchestra of wind chimes / Geoffrey Jacques.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacques, Geoffrey, author.

Series:

Made in Michigan Writers Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (100 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Thought-provoking poems that challenge preconceptions of form and style while focusing on themes of everyday experience, class, politics, literature, and more.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

I

Viewers Like

Some Parts of It

Stopped Here Momentarily for an Indefinite Period

Still Life

Of

The Calculus of Acceptable Sins

Has Happened

Nelson Rockefeller Sees Lenin

The Echo's Nadir

Myopia

Chance It

Amulet

July Nights

"That in the Ayre doth lome"

II

The Problem of Speech Genres

Ars Poetica

Proposition

Letter

A Figurative Novella

The Cilantro of Generals

Kurfürsten Damm

Crossing Delaware Water Gap

Extravaganzas

Refinement

Knowledge Wakes You Up: What Does That Tell You?

Mating Call

Empty Pockets

Morphologies of the Psyche

What Comes Between Them

III

Rhetorical Questions

Ode

I Heard All the Music as If They Were Drums

Pillarless

Quality Phase

Erector Set

Sentimental Education

Of Identity

Ray Charles

Detour Ahead

IV

A Wit of Cackle

Exemplar

The Divergent

Plenty

Hymn

Nature Study

Sonnet

Nocturne

A Note of Faint Praise

How

The Subject of the Poem

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780814350393

0814350399

OCLC:

1352968417