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Makeshift Altar : Poems / Amy M. Alvarez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alvarez, Amy M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (108 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2024]
- Summary:
- Amy M.Alvarez explores the cultural, spiritual, and place-based experiences of Afro-Caribbean and African American diasporic peoples in this haunting and emotionally charged collection of poems that meditates on the meaning of home and existence.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Skin
- I
- Appalachia → LGA
- Morgantown
- Dominant/recessive
- Eleggua
- Little Church
- Cebu City
- Queensborough
- Hood Aesthetic
- Easter, 1986
- 149th Street
- Blessed Are the Merciful
- The Other Mothers
- Rolling
- Mont Lawn Camp
- II
- In Virginia,
- Spring Semester
- Search: American Education
- Monongahela Means Falling
- Lighting candles on my stoop / watching the wind snuff them out
- Eight Minutes, Forty-six Seconds
- CPR
- I Am Whatever You Think
- Polaris
- An Old White Woman Touched My Hair at Rising Creek Bakery
- Predatory Rites
- Boondocks:
- On Flying over the Border Wall
- Inheritance
- Soil
- On the Futility of Pouring Water on a Dying Dolphin
- III
- Jíbara Negra
- Daughter
- Shaped into a Kind of Life
- Fly
- Chiba
- Photo of My Brother in Djibouti
- Old Gods
- Gloria, In Excelsis
- Aerodynamics
- IV
- How to Date a White Boy
- I Could Almost Mistake This Gold Peninsula for Gospel
- Oyá Fucks Cúchulainn
- After the Argument
- The Black Duchess
- Consistency
- Sometimes
- Carolina Beach
- V
- Date of Last Period
- Mary's Song
- When You Ask Why My Arms Are Empty
- Puerto Vallarta
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bathroom
- This is my body-
- Hadeology
- Gathering Ingredients for Sancocho in Appalachia during the Pandemic
- Street Corner Market, Philadelphia
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-9905-0
- OCLC:
- 1417197455
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