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The kitchen-dweller's testimony / Ladan Osman ; foreword by Kwame Dawes

Author
Osman, Ladan
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: I -- Ordinary Heaven -- Words We Lost in the Water -- Unsolicited Witness -- To Abel -- Sugar -- Section 8 -- Key -- First Red Dress -- Admonitions -- Twigs -- Verse of Hairs -- My Father Drops His Larynx -- Denotation -- Connotation -- Parable of the Leaf -- How to Make a Shadow -- II -- Intangible Quality -- Women Brewing -- Diviner of Teacups -- Kitchen-Dweller Presents Evidence -- Trouble -- Her House Is the Middle East -- That Which Scatters and Breaks Apart -- Invocation -- Kitchen-Dweller's Interlude -- Kitchen-Dweller Testifies -- Desertion -- Offended Tongue -- When the Fire Is Not Enough -- Clearing the Land -- Situations Wanted -- Figures -- Convoluted Mattress -- Water -- For the Woman Whose Love Is a Bird of Passage -- Man Who Puts Dirt on His Head -- III -- Glass Images -- To the Angel of Accounts on a Holy Night -- Tonight -- Visitant -- Pilgrims -- Woman, Ego, Shadow -- Woman in the Field -- Gnats -- Apparition One, Apparition Two -- Amber Doll -- Ken -- Hotel Party -- Princess Di in an Afterlife -- My Brother Receives His Kingdom under a Tree -- Proud Flesh -- Albatross Holds a Note in Her Bill -- Trumpet Testifies -- Following the Horn's Call -- Beetle -- Dove Sings for Young Lovers.
Summary
"Poetry collection interested in how women navigate gender roles"--
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0803278594 (electronic bk.)
9780803278592 (electronic bk.)
9780803266865 (paperback ; alk. paper)
0803266863 (paperback ; alk. paper)
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