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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812609303321

Autore

Williams Crystal <1970->

Titolo

Kin : poems / / by Crystal Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2000

ISBN

1-62895-195-8

0-87013-968-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (54 p.)

Disciplina

811/.54

811.54

Soggetti

African American women

Interracial marriage

Adoptees

Families

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Praise; Acknowledgements; rhythm; For The Woman Who Didn't Know My Name; music: one; The Famous Door; Prayer; The Masked Woman; At 25, I Have Already Begun to Like Lou Raws; Yea, Though I Walk ...; Order of Adoption in the Matter of Minor #44478; music: two; Rites of Passage; Poem for My Sisters; A,; Hey A,; Johnny; Dreadlock; Exercise in Tension or Truth or Whatever; "The Cholesterol Can Make You Stupid..."; Collard Folk; dance; Dré; Benjamin; The Prospect of Tomi-Terre; Curating the Boogie Down; Tour Guiding Our Nation' Capital

Sunday Dinner at Miss Rayella's Tower; ʺIt Wasnʹt Not Funnyʺ; Refrigerator Mouth; As on Every Saturday At 12; John Edgar Wideman, Apologies . . .; The First Time I Saw Flo-Jo; Once Upon a Time; Nora; Zawadi; oo-bop-she-bam; In Search of Aunt Jemima; Ode of the Hoodoo Woman; ʺBreeze Driftinʹ On By; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

In her first book-length collection of poetry, Crystal Williams utilizes memory and music as she lyrically weaves her way through American culture, pointing to the ways in which alienation, loss, and sensed ""otherness"" are corollaries of recent phenomena. Williams writes about being adopted by an interracial couple, a jazz pianist/Ford



Foundry worker and a school psychologist, and how that has affected her development as an African American woman. She tries to work out the answers to many difficult questions: in what way do African American artists define themselves? What do they owe the