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The body: oracle of memory /

"Through this powerful collection, Mikell challenges and questions the institutions that govern us, urging us to confront painful truths from the past while envisioning a better future. Her exploration of memory as medicine, weapon, and scalpel cuts through falsehoods to manifest profound real...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mikell, Tureeda (Author)
Other Authors: Jenkins, Ulysses, 1946- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : Black Lawrence Press 2024.
Subjects:
Human body > Poetry.
Holism > Poetry.
African American women > Poetry.
Corps humain > Poésie.
Holisme > Poésie.
Noires américaines > Poésie.
poetry.
Poetry.
Poésie.
Table of Contents:
  • Haiku I
  • The lamp
  • Said in times of old
  • Bee episodes
  • Haiku II
  • Ishtar arrives uninvited
  • Haiku III
  • Language & false assumptions I & II
  • Beware of omission
  • Instinct
  • Baldwin spoke loud that day
  • The spelling bee
  • I heard them
  • Abort some
  • Tale tells of genocide
  • The law
  • In the be
  • Miriam Makeba Mama Africa
  • Her sermon on the mount - God is good
  • Make them remember
  • Is the body just a sack of blood
  • Body aftermath
  • Pomo
  • Indigenous kindred of Native American & African descent
  • Haiku IV
  • Light medicine - circa 1983
  • Synchysis Haiku
  • Synchysis Term I-VII
  • Haiku
  • Haunting prophesy
  • Gift not forgotten
  • Gifts hidden & this little light of mine
  • Breaking bread burden
  • Love my enemies
  • 16 saviors
  • G-ma and the x mass tree
  • He asks
  • He speaks
  • Umum bumum and sumum
  • Suffer little children
  • Innocent memories
  • Scent sentenced
  • Toddler's iron memory
  • Halloween at seek
  • Remembering childhood
  • The ritual.