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| Material Type: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ntozake Shange |
| ISBN: | 0807062200 9780807062203 0807062219 9780807062210 |
| OCLC Number: | 42818607 |
| Description: | xii, 315 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Boy called risk / Reginald Shepherd -- 1967 / Greg Bottoms -- Water / Nadine Kijner -- Darkest purple / Rafael Campo -- Lemons / Frank X. Gaspar -- Gloomy Sunday / Marcus Cafagña -- Reluctant death / Pat Mora -- Lobo solo / Jewel Morgan -- For a daughter who leaves / Janice Mirikitani -- Intimacy / Hanif Kureishi -- Common water / Steve Faulkner -- Who's Irish? / Gish Jen -- Young girl's lament / Ha Jin -- Pink / Marilene Phipps -- What is a brother? / John Edgar Wideman -- Like that / Kim Addonizio -- Date / Brenda Miller -- Sun, the moon, the stars / Junot Diaz -- New Delhi romance / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Venus of Willendorf / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Orphan of love / Marjorie Sandor -- Closer / Susan Rosalsky -- Waiting for Amelia / Laura Wexler -- Leadership / Terese Svoboda -- Driving / Suzanne Kamata -- Goodbye, Johnnie Walker / Neil Davidson -- Licking the woman / Brandel France de Bravo -- Drowned man's notes / Brian Hocevar -- Deer crossing the sea / Larissa Szporluk -- Wilderness north of the Merrimack / Jane Brox -- New flower / Denise Levertov -- Garden of envy / Jamaica Kincaid -- This is our world / Dorothy Allison -- Naked woman playing Chopin / Louise Erdrich -- At the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music & Culture Among Youth / Reetika Vazirani -- Volcanic songs / Patrick Sylvain -- Where the markets converge / Marcie Hershman -- How poems happen / Barbara Kingsolver -- How to kiss / Danielle Legros Georges -- Dance school / Manfred Wolf -- For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts where my cousin Esteban was forbidden to wait tables because he wears dreadlocks / Martín Espada -- Sad sweet story of Sugar Lips Shinehot and the portable promised land / Touré -- Some kind of crazy / Major L. Jackson -- Jack Johnson / Kevin Young -- Rosa / Rita Dove. |
| Responsibility: | Ntozake Shange, guest editor. |
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