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Konkababy /

Konkababy is a poetry collection. The book follows the rhythms of artists such as Fela Kuti, Aimé Césaire, and Zim Ngqawana through "the poorly lit paradise" of the Atlantic world. Divining both the mundane and the spectacular, these poems feel their way through a net of bewildered visions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacDonald, Spree, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2019]
Subjects:
American poetry > African American authors > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • The third distribution
  • Divination
  • Colony collapse syndrome
  • On violence
  • On the third distribution of whites
  • Fracked
  • The state of her fist skin and veins
  • Up country
  • The second distribution
  • On the second distribution of whites
  • Heavy hands
  • Rasp
  • The nother world
  • Ohio African ensemble
  • John Brown's grave
  • Pebble
  • Pencil test
  • Klassiks
  • Cento for Cesaire
  • The silences of Bob Kaufman: a cento
  • Scrap Atlantic: a found poem
  • The final 38 seconds of Zim Ngqawana's "San song"
  • Milksop's lament: a cento
  • The first distribution
  • On the first distribution of whites
  • Headwaters of hurt
  • Konkababy
  • Class
  • Sycorax
  • Alt epic
  • Bog body
  • Gray.