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Duppy conqueror : new and selected poems / Kwame Dawes ; edited by Matthew Shenoda.
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- ISBN: 9781556594236 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1556594232 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xv, 317 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, 2013.
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| General Note: | Includes indexes. |
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| Subject: | Blacks > Poetry. Caribbean Area > Poetry. |
| Genre: | Poetry. |
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Table of Contents
Duppy Conqueror : New and Selected Poems
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Editor's Note | p. xiii | |
| Progeny of Air (1994) | ||
| Change | p. 5 | |
| Barnabas Collins | p. 6 | |
| Excursion to Port Royal | p. 9 | |
| Progeny of Air | p. 11 | |
| Akwaba | p. 15 | |
| Resisting the Anomie (1995) | ||
| After "Acceptance" | p. 19 | |
| House Arrest | p. 23 | |
| Straitjacket and All | p. 26 | |
| Dreaming on My Music Box | p. 28 | |
| History Lesson at Eight a.m. | p. 29 | |
| Prophets (1995) | ||
| Chapter X | p. 33 | |
| Hermit | p. 33 | |
| Chapter XVII | p. 39 | |
| It Is the Cause (Belleview Ska) | p. 39 | |
| Chapter XXVIII | p. 44 | |
| Flight | p. 44 | |
| Jacko Jacobus (1996) | ||
| A Way of Seeing | p. 55 | |
| Emigrant | p. 56 | |
| Trickster I | p. 58 | |
| Trickster II | p. 60 | |
| Trickster III | p. 62 | |
| Trickster IV | p. 63 | |
| Kingston Harbor | p. 65 | |
| Requiem (1996) | ||
| Research | p. 69 | |
| Swamp Poem | p. 71 | |
| Requiem | p. 72 | |
| Language | p. 74 | |
| Shame | p. 75 | |
| Warrior | p. 76 | |
| Land Ho | p. 79 | |
| Shook Foil (1997) | ||
| Caution | p. 83 | |
| Natural | p. 85 | |
| Silent | p. 86 | |
| Shook Foil | p. 88 | |
| Prayer for My Son | p. 90 | |
| Shadow Play | p. 92 | |
| Rita | p. 93 | |
| Midland (2001) | ||
| Inheritance | p. 99 | |
| Holy Dub | p. 107 | |
| Satta: En Route to Columbia, S.C. | p. 110 | |
| Midland | p. 111 | |
| A Letter from Greeleyville | p. 111 | |
| Blues on Route 15 with Krystal | p. 112 | |
| In Search of Alma | p. 113 | |
| Crow over Corn Row | p. 114 | |
| Roosting | p. 115 | |
| Decent Folk | p. 116 | |
| Epoch | p. 117 | |
| To the Third and Fourth Generations | p. 118 | |
| Somebody Trouble the Water | p. 119 | |
| Bruised Totems (2004) | ||
| Bruised Totems | p. 123 | |
| Mask | p. 124 | |
| Gallery Art | p. 125 | |
| Sight | p. 126 | |
| Gourd | p. 127 | |
| Brimming (2006) | ||
| Dreaming of Saint Augustine | p. 131 | |
| How to Pick a Hanging Tree | p. 132 | |
| Brimming | p. 133 | |
| Graves | p. 134 | |
| Carolina Gold | p. 135 | |
| Wisteria (2006) | ||
| Wisteria | p. 139 | |
| Tornado Child | p. 140 | |
| Black Funk | p. 142 | |
| Dem | p. 144 | |
| Long Memory | p. 146 | |
| Fire Makers | p. 148 | |
| Gomer's Song (2007) | ||
| Hinterland | p. 151 | |
| What We Have Learned | p. 153 | |
| Sweet Old Women | p. 156 | |
| Water Carrier | p. 159 | |
| Long Time | p. 160 | |
| Impossible Flying (2007) | ||
| Legend | p. 163 | |
| Estimated Prophet | p. 165 | |
| Impossible Flying | p. 166 | |
| Casting Out Demons | p. 170 | |
| Secrets | p. 172 | |
| Wasps | p. 173 | |
| Switch | p. 175 | |
| Mistaken | p. 176 | |
| Hope's Hospice (2009) | ||
| Coffee Break | p. 181 | |
| Live Up | p. 182 | |
| Making Ends Meet | p. 183 | |
| Yap | p. 185 | |
| Faith | p. 187 | |
| The Seen Things | p. 187 | |
| The Unseen Things | p. 189 | |
| Evidence and Substance | p. 190 | |
| Back of Mount Peace (2010) | ||
| Found | p. 195 | |
| The Habits of Love | p. 196 | |
| Steamed Fish Supper | p. 197 | |
| Evidence | p. 198 | |
| A Woman Wants | p. 199 | |
| Sea | p. 200 | |
| Seer | p. 201 | |
| Redux | p. 202 | |
| Esther's Nightmares | p. 203 | |
| The Accident | p. 203 | |
| The Drowning | p. 204 | |
| The First Body | p. 205 | |
| Esther's Daughter Returns | p. 206 | |
| Prognosis | p. 207 | |
| Wheels (2011) | ||
| The Glory Has Left the Temple | p. 211 | |
| Wise Man | p. 213 | |
| Patience | p. 215 | |
| Faithful | p. 217 | |
| Rasta | p. 220 | |
| African Postman | p. 221 | |
| Reach | p. 223 | |
| New Poems | ||
| Steel | p. 227 | |
| Dirt | p. 229 | |
| Talk | p. 231 | |
| Transaction | p. 232 | |
| Apparition | p. 234 | |
| Playing Lymon | p. 236 | |
| Prophet | p. 237 | |
| Divination | p. 239 | |
| Revolution Man | p. 240 | |
| Traveling Man | p. 241 | |
| Penitentiary | p. 243 | |
| Piano and the Drunken Wake | p. 245 | |
| Playing Wining Boy | p. 247 | |
| Elevator | p. 249 | |
| Avery | p. 252 | |
| A Good Woman Blues | p. 254 | |
| Soldier Man | p. 257 | |
| Rupture | p. 259 | |
| Coreen | p. 261 | |
| Prophet Man | p. 263 | |
| The Actors' Meeting | p. 265 | |
| Salesman | p. 267 | |
| Creed | p. 269 | |
| The Transaction | p. 271 | |
| Thieving | p. 273 | |
| Four Songs for Berniece | p. 275 | |
| If You Know Her | p. 279 | |
| Role Playing | p. 281 | |
| The Host of Holy Witnesses | p. 283 | |
| Avoiding the Spirits | p. 289 | |
| The Burden | p. 291 | |
| Death | p. 293 | |
| Fire | p. 295 | |
| Land | p. 297 | |
| To Tame the Savage Beast | p. 299 | |
| Mama | p. 301 | |
| Exorcism | p. 304 | |
| Old Man under a Pecan Tree | p. 306 | |
| The Lessons | p. 308 | |
| Index of First Lines | p. 311 | |
| Index of Titles | p. 315 | |
| About the Author | p. 317 |
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