Title: Errançities : poems /
Authors: Troupe, Quincy.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Coffee House Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: African Americans Poetry
Abstract: "Coined with the French word errance ('to wander') in mind, these poems rove from ancient Yoruba to the streets of Harlem to the tropical heat of Guadeloupe and emerge with a new vocabulary for the transformations of the physical, philosophical, and musical worlds."--Page 4 of cover.
Contents: An art of lost faith -- When time was young -- Las Cruces, New Mexico revisited -- Going back to voices lost in the past -- Historic attitudes in birds (& humans) -- Where have they all gone -- Harlem: circa 1983-1984 -- Amnesia #1 -- Amnesia #2 -- Amnesia #3 -- After seeing an image in Ashland, Oregon -- On a Sunday -- Mix-y-uppy memory -- What some old men keep telling me -- A hard quick rainstorm in Manhattan -- Sounds of New York City -- 2002 Manhattan snapshot: the war on terror -- A few questions posed -- Foggy morning in Port Townsend -- The allusion of seduction -- Searching for a word -- Praise song for Sekou -- Taps for Freddie -- Miles's last tune live, August 25th, 1991 -- A poem of return: circa 2008 -- Michael Jackson & the arc of love -- Thoughts on a Sunday morning in Goyave -- Goyave night scene -- Sitting on my veranda, facing the Caribbean Sea -- A veil of transparent rain -- A March day in Goyave -- A day in the life of King Rooster & his son -- Short-term America -- Mad Max -- Haiti haiku -- Earthquake: Haiti -- Hurricanes -- Lusting after mangoes -- Searching for mangoes: second take -- Listening to black birds -- Haiku song -- A vision -- Seven/elevens -- What's the real deal here -- Errançities -- The mystery man in the black hat speaks -- Wooden mouths -- The legend of Pablo Escobar -- Just think about it -- Looking into the future -- Eye travel back into memory -- Untitled dreamscape -- A man walks in slow motion -- Connections #2 -- View from the 48th floor of the New World Trade Center Building #7 -- The last stormy breaths of Irene -- Sentences.