We Are the Young Magicians (Barnard New Women Poets Series) - Hardcover

Forman, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807068209 ISBN 13: 9780807068205

Publisher: Beacon Pr, 1993

Synopsis

Poems portray the Black experience in contemporary America

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About the Author

Ruth Forman is the 1992 grand prize winner of the Black History Month Marathon, sponsored by In the Company of Poets, and of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, for her previous book, We Are the Young Magicians. Her work has also been featured in the PBS series The United States of Poetry, and published in book and CD form. She lives in Los Angeles.

Review

3:59
9am For Shange
Aienka With The Colors
At Least Once A Week
Backdraft
Blues Poem I
Blues Poem Ii
Blues Poem Iii
The Call
Cesarean Section
A Chorus Of Needles Singing Away The Thirst
A Dragonfly's Wing
El Ser Mujer
For Your Information
Green Boots N Lil Honeys
Grove
Haiku I
Haiku Ii
Haiku Iii
I Did Not Pee My Pants Somebody Else Did
I Hold A Cave In The Palm Of My Hand
I Remember Four
I Want To Hear Your Genius
I Will Speak Genius To Myself
If You Lose Your Pen
In A Darkroom
In The Corner On The Floor
In The Mirror Too Long
Labels For 99cent
Lucky Strikes
Marriage And The 18-hour Bra
Mistress
Momma
On Ma Way
Poetry Should Ride The Bus
Rescue From The Dance Of One Hundred Mermaids
Revolution Song From A Future Cockroach
Souls
A Split Tree Still Grows
Stoplight Politics
This Poem
Today You Dial Me
Top Gun
Up Sister
Waitin On Summer
We Are The Young Magicians
We Spin Unalone
What Will It Take
White Flower Day Or Macy's From The Top Down
A Woman's Scent
You So Woman
Young Cornrows Callin Out The Moon
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0807068209
• ISBN 13: 9780807068205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 86