The black Maria: poems [First edition] 9781942683025, 1942683022

"Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas by early astronomers, The Black Maria inve

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The black Maria: poems [First edition]
 9781942683025, 1942683022

Table of contents :
elegy. elegy --
prayer & letter to the dead --
to the sea (any) --
"& when it happens" --
"you are going now" --
"hands for pleasure, hands for mending" --
to the sea (any) --
"black, full of language" --
"Odysseus, his lungs full" --
"Claim, I, to be the poet, making talk" --
"The febrile & opal" --
to the sea near lampedusa --
luam to the dead --
luam/ asa luam --
luam, who says to the dead --
"Inside the sea, there is more" --
"The back-eyed woman" --
"To be near the sea, is to gleam" --
luam in the sea, to the survivors --
luam remembers massawa --
luam to her sibling --
luam cleaning house --
the luams speak of god --
luam, new york --
luam, asmara --
luam & the flies, umbertide, asmara, new york --
"Look! In other poems you are" --
luam mending clothes --
luam, new york --
luam, monterchi, italy --
to the sea --
"Why not, in addition, tell" --
"strange earth, strange" --
to the sea --
to the sea --
"praise the water, now" --
"I love the azucenas, so bring them to you --
the luams --
on poetry & history. the black maria. The black maria --
Third estrangement, in memory of Jonathan Ferrell --
The woodlice, fourth estrangement --
The fig eaters, fifth estrangement --
The first estrangement --
Moon for Aisha --
Cooley High, fifth estrangement --
The beauty of the world, tenth estrangement --
Second estrangement --
Third estrangement --
The black maria --
Fourth estrangement, with a petition for the reunion of Jonathan & George Jackson.

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