Seduction : new poems, 2013-2018 / Quincy Troupe

Author:: Troupe, Quincy
Uniform Title:: Poems. Selections
Published:: Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Copyright Date:: ©2019
Physical Description:: 109 pages ; 23 cm

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Ghost voices whispering from the near past -- Catching shadows -- Soon to be ghost voices plunging through the sky -- Ghost waves -- The drug of endless war -- Delusional: a portrait -- Song of some bloodthirsty men -- Memory: that place once bright & clear -- Mercy -- Strange incidents -- Mixed metaphors via the media -- Some thoughts about connecting in today's wired world -- Strange Harlem encounter: a portrait -- High noon shadow -- A portrait of some con men eye have run into -- New seven-elevens in rhymes -- Question -- A dirge for Michael Brown, Tamir Rice & Trayvon Martin -- The world sometime in the future: what the bus driver told me -- Questions about race & color -- Changes -- Fragment -- Jazz improvisation as blueprint for living -- Eye want to go to Bucaramanga, Colombia -- Untitled rant -- Poem for Poets House -- Poem for Lola, echoing Derek Walcott's "Sixty years after" -- A singer's siren calling in Marcus Garvey Park: August 24, 2013 -- A beautiful woman putting on makeup on the downtown number 3 New York subway train -- High up in my imagination -- Locked inside my imagination: take 2 -- Sometimes while sitting on a bench in Central Park -- Telephone call from Samo for Miles Davis -- Death always comes -- A remembrance for Prince (1958-2016) -- Eye remember the first image of Madiba Mandela -- Romare Bearden's art between 1964 & 1985 -- Poem for Jack Whitten -- Lusting after mangoes number 3 -- Lessons in seduction -- Passing by la casa of "Gabo, " March 7, 2014 -- Blue mandala -- What if truth can't seduce -- A double rainbow -- Seduction -- Usain Bolt's final 2016 Olympics -- Hints of seduction -- Eye also dream of beauty -- Each of us here -- Lyric still life.

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Poetry

ISBN:

9780810139046 paperback alkaline paper
0810139049 paperback alkaline paper

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries) ; 2018

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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