A fire in the hills : poems /
"In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those revelations of sublimation of self gives way here...
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| Language: | English |
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Pasadena, CA :
Red Hen Press,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes As Our Dead Seek Justice
- I
- In a Border Town
- All American
- My First Gun
- Math Lesson
- Shotgun
- My History Homework, Mr. Jeff Fort
- Blues in Five/Four, the Violence in Chicago
- Game of Losing, 1968
- The Sirens of Saigon
- Requiem for the Coupe De Ville
- A Poem for Freddie Gray, Baltimore
- What a Fellowship
- An Elegy for Lucille Clifton
- II
- What Is Left
- The Great Foot
- What Elizabeth Bishop Could Not Know
- Proposition Joe, from the Grave
- Charleston
- Jobs or Not, the Hustle
- When We Are Truck Drivers
- The N Line to Brooklyn
- Good Uncles
- The Shaw Brothers
- Richard Pryor Is Dead
- All Ghosts Rise, Black Theater
- Inosculation, an Ode to Walt Whitman
- III
- A South Carolina State of Nation Mind
- Midnight Air in Louisville
- This Civil War Yet Unresolved
- When the Slavers Died at Sea
- Back Spin of Hope
- When I Think of Vietnam
- Sacred
- To Malcolm X On His Second Coming
- Ephemera
- God Is
- Biographical Note
- Back Cover
