How God ends us / DéLana R.A. Dameron ; foreword by Elizabeth Alexander.
DéLana R.A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us, selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Dameron's poetry forms a lyrical conversation with an ominous and omnipotent d...
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University of South Carolina Press : In cooperation with the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, University of South Carolina,
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Table of Contents:
- Lament
- All Hallows' Eve
- It is written
- Body, and elegy
- Oiling the joints
- The last touch
- Cuspidor
- Communion
- Backseat savior
- Black saw-wing
- On seeking the other 2/5 up north
- Meditation
- Questions from the Jamaican children
- Ad in the Chicago Defender
- The leaving
- Consider this.
- Excavation
- Inheritance
- My grandfather wouldn't know me if he saw
- Underneath the brown
- I heard it, once
- Parable of the hungry missionary
- To the man whose name is "Paradise"
- The city of discarded umbrellas
- Even the clouds came to gather
- Heartland of Columbia Nursing Home
- Israelites
- Transfiguration of Jesus in Jamaica
- Condition: if the Garden of Eden was in Africa
- To the black girl in Charleston, SC, waving the Confederate flag
- Missionaries lead the children in first steps
- Lynching mobs
- Tree's memory
- Prelude to death
- Requiem for the Gulf Coast
- Buff Bay, Jamaica
- Too late to uncapture
- Divining.
- Mala is for meditation
- Landslide in La Jolla
- Bless
- Ode to the camel-hair brush
- Closer to knowing
- Portrait of a seafarer
- The body as a house
- The space between
- The red thread
- How quickly the sun comes
- Wednesday night fish fry
- Thursday morning
- Joe Turner's come
- No longer ashamed
- Flame
- This sacrifice, this love.