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Book

US (a.)

Call Number

  • 811 W718 (CEN)

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Edition

First MTV Books/Gallery Books trade paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York : Gallery Books/MTV Books, 2015.

Physical Description

257 pages ; 18 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Summary

"After four years of living abroad, Saul Williams returned to the United States, his head twirling with thoughts on race, class, gender, finance, freedom -- everything that makes up our country." -- Back cover.

Notes

Poems.

Contents

  • Look how they treat us. Televisions descended from above
  • Rammellzee at the Battle of the Republic
  • There is a way of breaking a heart so that the blood spills evenly onto the page
  • Drill rap lifted from Columbus's journal and thus claimed to be our beloved Pope the Queen
  • When the ocean was the Internet, u were new to me
  • Beneath the ruins are older ruins
  • Brightly-coiled serpent
  • Funk is its own reward
  • Historic landmarks
  • Paid advertisement 1
  • Answer to the question that wings ask
  • Unanimous goldmine
  • I, for one, am happy they keep casting white actors to star in Old Testament films
  • Alternative reality, in which we learned to disappear
  • Warded like music, by measures
  • Disappearance of the O
  • Dead beat
  • Fck the beliefs
  • Glorybox
  • Coltan as cotton
  • Paid advertisement 2
  • You can't unring the bell
  • Satchmo's smile is contagious
  • How I got over
  • Manhattan beach
  • Orca before he swallowed the black box
  • Paid advertisement 3
  • Outlawed animal arguments for vegans
  • Pattern against user
  • Oceanium
  • To drown in baptism
  • These mthrfckrs
  • As if thighs were parentheses
  • Freedom virus found in monkeys
  • Glorybox. American dream. Letters to a sleeping girlfriend
  • Born of a fiery womb
  • Undressed
  • Tu lips
  • Horn of the clock bike
  • Haitian fight song
  • Haunt
  • Evelyn Nesbit
  • Rottweiler choir
  • How he talks to me
  • Closer to birth than I am death
  • Poisson rouge
  • Minimizing, denying, and blaming
  • Hit or miss
  • Minstrel
  • Love and the mountaineer
  • Untitled
  • Stephen Torton kicks off his shoes
  • History of self defense
  • Choose a side
  • Mars Volta live in Charleston
  • Montage
  • Song keeper
  • Say what you feel
  • Songbird of the unworded testament
  • Harmonic convergence
  • Sketches of L'Heroine.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.