Fushsia /Mahtem Shiferraw ; foreword by Kwame Dawes.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
- African Poetry Book .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Foreword by Kwame Dawes; Acknowledgments; Fuchsia; Origins and Intersections; E is for Eden; How to Peel Cactus Fruit; Something Sleeps in the Mud Beds of the Nile; Twenty Questions forYour Mother; While Weeping(Broadway and 5th); The Monster; Talks about Race; Sleeping with Hyenas; She says they comeat night . . .; Water; Polka Dot Dreams; Blood Disparities; Synesthesia; Listro (Shoe-Shiner); Pilgrimage to the Nile; Dinner with Uncles; In the Lion's Den; Daisies and Death; Something Familiarand Freezing; A Dead Man's List; Dialectics of Death Being a WomanRumors; Visitor; Broken Men; Song of the Dead; Awakening; Statues; Kalashnikovs; The Language of Hair; Small Tragedies; 4am; Dear Abahagoy -; Effervescence; Ode to Things Torn; Plot Line; A Secret Lull