Against heaven : poems /
Kemi Alabi's transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country's central and ordained fictions--those mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. Instead of turning to a salvation that has...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Graywolf Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- How to fornicate
- Against heaven
- We would hex the president but
- Love poem -1: Chicago (CST) to Bangalore (GMT+5:30)
- Black as:
- Voice clear as
- The lion Tamer's daughter learners the rules
- Sunday closet
- A financial planner asks about my goals, or golden shovel with cardi B's "money"
- Mr. Hotep says #Blacklivematter and he'd kill a dyke
- Love letter from Pampeii
- The lion tamer's daughter vs. the whip
- No more white girls, or what I learned from father
- 44 questions to ask while bingeing
- Catatonia mercy/or what i learned from mother
- The virus
- against heaven
- Excerpt from the book of oceans
- Theory of plate tectonics
- Prayer in child's pose
- The oldest song
- After we ruin my love's heart, the God of Annihilation prays back to me
- The lonely dream in fevers
- The lion tamer's daughter vs. full moon in leo
- Soft beautiful just for me relaxer, no-lye conditioning creme, children's regular
- At HM, when another black girl asks if I work here
- Undelivered message to the sky: November 9, 2016
- Depression proposes to me again
- Against heaven
- The lion Tamer's daughter vs. the ledge
- You must believe in spring
- Eulogy for the voice in my head
- The lonely sleep through winter
- Dendrochronology of this want
- Against heaven
- Polyamory defense #324
- Goodbye letter to my lover's wife
- A wedding, or what we unlearned from Descartes
- Free fucked
- Planet fka the lion tamer's daughter, mapped
- Against heaven.