Mother Tongues: Poems

ISBN-13: 9780810141353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 96 str.

Tsitsi Ella Jaji

Spis treści

• Mother Tongues
• Table of Contents (i)
• Dedication: Our lingering embrace iii
• mother tongue (1)
• 1 On the Isle of Lesbos
• Our Mother of Stone
• Daughtering
• And They Didn't Die
• In Praise of the Great Cat
• * lingua: corral
• Five Bagatelles
• Fingerings
• flare
• Symphony Dinner with Piano Soloist
• Blue Note
• Bandwagon
• Cooking with Miles
• Relaxing with Miles
• * lingua: tongue-tied
• Tell me something good
• A Song at Dawn
• Auxiliary
• Prelude to a Kiss
• First Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Time
• Second Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Refinement
• After Tonsure
• * lingua: ladyfingers
• Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands
• Manual for Initiation into the Zebra Sisterhood
• Electioneered
• Old News
• After the Coup (or Not)
• The Crystal River
• Profile
• How I Write
• * lingua: good tast
• Real Simple
• Way Out West
• Autumn Leaves
• Marvin in Stereo/Right Ear
• Marvin in Stereo/Left Ear
• morning, 11.9.16
• Burying Willie, Our Lion
• Malick Sidibé's Camera Calls
• * lingua: gorgon
• Benin Bronze
• Unaccompanied Minor
• Children's Swings
• Pond in Museum Garden
• Ritual Object
• The Body Counts
• at war
• Wildcat
• * lingua: a quick tongue
• The Graves Suite
• Ballade: Thyroid Goes Rogue
• 3 Intermezzi for Unaccompanied Thyroid
• Misterioso: Iodine 131 Meets the Royal Thyroid
• Cadenza: Thyroid Rides Again
• Koan of the Great Cat
• * lingua: babble
• We are the darker sister
• Boy Lotus
• Three Lessons on a Friday
• Stumbling Block
• Facing El Greco
• When Thomas Finally Rolled Up, I Said
• Infinitive