Dream of a Word

by Lansana, Quraysh Ali

• ISBN13: 9781882688302
• ISBN10: 1882688309
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Tia Chucha Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 13
The Stars and Stripes Stripped
Pledge of America	p. 21
In A Tar-Mangled Manner	p. 22
Workers	p. 23
First Day	p. 25
JFK for a Day: The Tour	p. 26
Marquette Park, 1966	p. 28
Song for the Nineties	p. 31
Exquisite Politics	p. 32
Rave Politics	p. 33
Everyone's Living Room	p. 34
Brain on Ice: The El Train Poem	p. 35
A School Yard of Broken Dreams	p. 37
Explode	p. 38
It's Not the Heat, It's the Stupidity	p. 39
Tomatoes	p. 41
Armadillo Charm	p. 43
El Grupo McDonald's	p. 46
Velvet	p. 47
An Aching Mosiac
We Are a People Quite Integral	p. 50
Freeing the Fossil	p. 51
Scattering Dreams	p. 53
In An American Landscape	p. 54
Exquisite Minority	p. 56
Good to Her	p. 57
Jeunes filles	p. 59
What I'm Telling You	p. 60
Of Fish	p. 61
Mt. Zion Baptist	p. 62
Why Couldn't Have Been Born A Baptist?	p. 63
I Am the Fourth Supreme	p. 64
Public Radio Plays Eddie Harris	p. 65
Derrick Poem (The Lost World)	p. 66
Notes for a Poem on Being Asian American	p. 67
Welcome	p. 69
Made From Ghosts
Two Daughters	p. 73
Miscarry	p. 74
Poem for The Unnamed	p. 75
I take all my troubles	p. 76
Blues for My Daddy	p. 78
Fathers	p. 80
On the Fourth of July....	p. 81
The Killing Floor	p. 83
Gutters	p. 84
Disorganization	p. 85
Turning Forty in the 90's	p. 87
Trace	p. 88
The Dead Still Walk...	p. 89
Letter from Foreign	p. 91
The Monster	p. 92
Battle	p. 93
Homecoming	p. 94
Hearing about the Mystery Lights on a Bus near Joplin	p. 96
Pretending the Ghost	p. 97
Cough Medicine	p. 99
Thoughts of an Ambivalent Carnivore	p. 100
Beneath the Clatter
Night Train	p. 103
Insomnia in N.Y.C.	p. 104
Daybreak Wakes	p. 106
Eating In Anger	p. 108
When The Neighbors Fight	p. 110
Halloween	p. 111
Boy Sneezes, Head Explodes	p. 112
To Be Heard	p. 114
Ang Tunay Na Lalaki Receives Instructions for His Last Workshop Poem	p. 116
Automatic Writing	p. 118
"Convicts, Inmates & Felons, Too..."	p. 119
The Lifestory Of Eddie James "Son" House Jr. As Told Through His Hands	p. 121
Little Girls, 1993	p. 122
Dancing in Your Mother's Skin	p. 123
Spring Cleaning	p. 125
Study Questions	p. 126
List of Tia Chucha Press Books	p. 144
About the Contributors	p. 146
About the Editors	p. 150
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