Prologue: Finding Sappho | p. ix |
Early Callings | |
Lélé's Long Song | p. 3 |
Hearing Sappho on Desire Street | p. 18 |
Sappho's Dream of Black Comes Roaming | p. 35 |
Death of Daughters | p. 48 |
Remembering Sappho and the Songs of Slaves | p. 60 |
How Creole Sounds | p. 80 |
Sappho Becomes Creole | p. 99 |
Calling Up Poems and Places | |
A Drama of Waiting in the Ninth Ward | p. 109 |
City of a Thousand Ears at the Maple Leaf Bar | p. 121 |
Pablo Neruda's One-Hundredth Birthday at the Acropolis Bar | p. 131 |
Homeless | p. 144 |
Excavating Indian Chants on Square 49 at Tremé | p. 155 |
The Lady of Anything | p. 172 |
The Poetry of Trees at Lakeview | p. 183 |
Epilogue: Metamorphoses | p. 195 |
Acknowledgments | p. 207 |
Notes | p. 211 |
Bibliography | p. 231 |
Index | p. 239 |
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