Faster than light : new and selected poems, 1996 2011 / Marilyn Nelson.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Lyric histories. A wreath for Emmett Till
- From the freedom business
- Witness
- Pestilence
- Voyage by sea
- Keeper of the keys
- Fat on the fire
- Meg
- Cows in the shade
- Sap rising
- Farm garden
- Freedom Business
- From fortune's bones: the manumission requiem
- On abrigador hill
- Dinah's lament
- Not my bones
- From Senecca village
- Sky-land
- Conductor
- Cotillion
- Address
- Thompson and seaman vows, African union church
- Words and whispers
- Little box
- Miracle in the collection plate
- Sisters of charity
- Uncle epiphany
- From Miss Crandall's school for young ladies & little misses of color
- Book
- Family
- Tao of the trial
- Miss Ann Eliza Hammond
- Esymology
- Albert Hinkley
- Worth
- From Carver: a life of poems
- Watkins laundry and apothecary
- Old settlers' reunion
- Four a.m. in the woods
- Cafeteria food
- Called
- My people
- Chemistry 101
- From an Alabama farmer
- Bedside reading
- Poultry husbandry
- 1905
- Veil-raisers
- How a dream dies
- Dimensions of the Milky Way
- Ruellia Noctiflora
- Goliath
- House ways and means
- God's little workshop
- Eureka
- Mineralogy
- Last talk with Jim Hardwick
- Moton field
- From sweethearts of rhythm
- Bugle call rag
- Chattanooga choo-choo
- Jump, jump, jump
- She's crazy with the heat
- Red-hot mama
- That man of mine
- Improvisation, 1948
- Drum solo, 1950
- Song is you.
- Pt. 2. Other selected poems. From the cachoeira tales and other poems
- General prologue
- C.I.A.
- Harmonia and Moreen
- Baixa mall
- Olodum
- Igreja do nossa senhor do bonfim
- Triolets for triolet.
- Pt. 3. New and uncollected poems. Millie-Christine
- Small good news
- Little dialogue with the musse
- First alzheimer's sonnet
- Second alzheimer's sonnet
- Truceless wars
- Live jazz, Franklin park zoo
- To the Confederate dead
- Bivouac in a storm
- Six-minue dogfight
- Written in clouds
- Honor guard
- Eternal optimist
- Psalm for another people
- Nine times nine, on awe
- In the waiting room
- Mohembo road
- For the feast of Corpus Christi
- How to be human now
- Contemplative life
- Language of the absolute
- Stone adze
- Risk unto death
- Truth and beauty
- La gare central
- Where humanity begins
- Nothing stranger
- From "Adventure-Monk!"