All Told

by Jones, Hettie

• ISBN13: 9781931236195
• ISBN10: 1931236194
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. African American Studies. "How lucky I am to have my good humor! Without it I might / have been blue instead of delighted enough with my life/ and the two baby house plants I've just brought home / to share with me their destiny, or maybe to combine us/ in that one big destiny"-("All Told"). ALL TOLD adds to the achievement of DRIVE, Hettie Jones's prize-winning first collection. "Her gift is to paint with vivid words and to cloak her wit with images in such a way that they liner in the mind long after the reading"-Midwest Book Review.

Table of Contents

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
Genuflection to the God of Lost Gloves	11	(1)
Five on the Left Hand Side	12	(1)
Name That Tune	13	(1)
Accidental Pleasures	14	(2)
Animal Vegetable	16	(1)
Self-Portrait As Road Report August 1997	17	(1)
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities	18	(2)
Dance Dance Dance	20	(1)
Ode to My Nose	21	(1)
Modern Maturity	22	(5)
Shopping in Diversity
Scenes from the Life of the Water Towers	27	(1)
Hare Krishna Haute Couture	28	(1)
Due Canzones	29	(1)
Shopping in Diversity	30	(2)
Cold Snaps	32	(2)
The Month of July 1991 for Andrew Simpson	34	(1)
October Journey 10/7/99	35	(1)
Homework	36	(2)
Say Goodbye to the Little Yellow Building	38	(2)
Ode to My Kitchen Sink	40	(1)
Ode to Union Square	41	(1)
All the Time in the World	42	(3)
At the Miami Vice Rest Stop
The Word Holy	45	(1)
At the Miami Vice Rest Stop	46	(1)
Note	47	(1)
Dinner in the Diner	48	(2)
Phone Sex for Race and Gender	50	(1)
Two for the Four A.M. First Snow Show	51	(1)
Minor Domo	52	(1)
That Old Man Wouldn't Tell	53	(1)
Waste Not Want Not	54	(1)
April	55	(4)
The Real Brooklyn Dodgers Are from Queens
Proper Gander	59	(1)
The Real Brooklyn Dodgers Are from Queens	60	(1)
Brooklyn Sugar	60	(1)
Back on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway	61	(1)
Heirloom Brooklyn	62	(1)
Letters	63	(1)
Extending Family	64	(2)
Three More for the Road	66	(2)
Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits	68	(2)
Two for the Proofreader's Lunch	70	(2)
Bon Voyage for Eric	72	(1)
Hettie's Hex for Fee	73	(1)
Peter Pinchbeck's Missing Metaphor	74	(3)
Global Warning
Global Warning	77	(1)
``The Doorman Has Been Paroled''	78	(1)
New Southern Exposure	78	(1)
Air Jamaica	79	(1)
Page from A History of War	80	(1)
For the African Street Boy	81	(1)
Laments for the Afghan Women	82	(2)
Lament for a Turkish Suicide Age 22	84	(3)
All Told
When What You See Is Not What You Get	87	(1)
A Nebula of Noteworthy Nellies	88	(1)
Second Hand Shod	89	(1)
Dust---A Survival Kit 9/11--10/11 2001	90	(1)
Caught	91	(1)
Like (as if)	92	(1)
``forgive me, Julia Child''	93	(1)
All Told	94