I can't talk about the trees without the blood /Tiana Clark.
Clark, Tiana,
I can't talk about the trees without the blood /Tiana Clark. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xv, 112 pages) - Pitt poetry series .
Includes bibliographical references.
Intro; Contents; Nashville; I.I Can't Talk; Cross/Bite; Cottonmouth; Bear Witness; Soil Horizon; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #1; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #2; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #7; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #14; Ways to Be Saved; Dead Bug; Tim; Dutchman in Reverse; 800 Days: Libation; The Ayes Have It; Ode to the Only Living Object that Survived; II. About the Trees; After Apollo; After Agon; After Orpheus; The Rime of Nina Simone; III. Without the Blood; BBHMM; First Tree, at Church Camp; First Blood; Self-Portrait as First Kiss; What the Blood Does Where the Fired Body Is PorousSelf-Portrait as Hannah Peace; Mother Driving Away After Christmas; In the Middle of Things . . .; Freelove in Retrograde; I Started Praying for You; After Amistad; Midnight to 3 A.M.; Rituals; Mixed Bitch; Epilogue; How to Find the Center of a Circle; Notes; Acknowledgments
"For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can't Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because Tiana cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past--she will always see blood on the leaves."--Publisher's website
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
9780822986164
African Americans--Poetry.
Black people--Race identity--Poetry.
American poetry--21st century.
Electronic Books.
PS3603 / .I236 2018
I can't talk about the trees without the blood /Tiana Clark. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xv, 112 pages) - Pitt poetry series .
Includes bibliographical references.
Intro; Contents; Nashville; I.I Can't Talk; Cross/Bite; Cottonmouth; Bear Witness; Soil Horizon; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #1; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #2; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #7; Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #14; Ways to Be Saved; Dead Bug; Tim; Dutchman in Reverse; 800 Days: Libation; The Ayes Have It; Ode to the Only Living Object that Survived; II. About the Trees; After Apollo; After Agon; After Orpheus; The Rime of Nina Simone; III. Without the Blood; BBHMM; First Tree, at Church Camp; First Blood; Self-Portrait as First Kiss; What the Blood Does Where the Fired Body Is PorousSelf-Portrait as Hannah Peace; Mother Driving Away After Christmas; In the Middle of Things . . .; Freelove in Retrograde; I Started Praying for You; After Amistad; Midnight to 3 A.M.; Rituals; Mixed Bitch; Epilogue; How to Find the Center of a Circle; Notes; Acknowledgments
"For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can't Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because Tiana cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past--she will always see blood on the leaves."--Publisher's website
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
9780822986164
African Americans--Poetry.
Black people--Race identity--Poetry.
American poetry--21st century.
Electronic Books.
PS3603 / .I236 2018