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Book

Smoking the Bible : poems

Call Number

  • 811 A117 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2022]

Physical Description

xiii, 62 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

"A collection of poems by Chris Abani"--

Contents

  • Flay
  • Quest
  • Nostalgia
  • Birth Right
  • Sojourn
  • Excavation
  • Light Flame, Turn Rebel
  • Cameo: Broach
  • White Egret
  • Cameo: Cremation
  • Thread
  • Glow
  • Presence and Aftermath
  • Poet Desperate for Song
  • Manhood
  • Question
  • That Early Sunday
  • The Ghost Speaks
  • A Small Awe
  • Grace
  • Ritual Is Journey
  • Olokun
  • Offertory
  • Horses
  • Insomnia
  • Rain
  • How to Write a Love Letter to Your Brother
  • Allegory
  • Lineage
  • Snake
  • Litany
  • Zealot
  • Leather
  • Cameo: Afternoon Tea
  • The Bend of Tomorrow
  • Father
  • Cameo: The Cut
  • What Is Traveled, What Is Fragile
  • How to Kill Your Father
  • There Are Always Bodies in the Swamp
  • Terminus
  • Portal
  • Revelation
  • Incantation
  • Jordan Is No Mere River
  • Wing
  • Fragrance
  • Ejima
  • Scythe
  • Vigil
  • Mbubu
  • Crossing
  • The Familiar Is a Texture We Cannot Trust
  • The Calculus of Faith.

Genres

Poetry.