Bestiary
Subtitle: poems
By: Donika Kelly
Contributors: Finney, Nikky, writer of introduction
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9781555977580
Subjects: African Americans; Poetry; American poetry; Women
Work titles: Poems
Notes: Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize; selected by Nikky Finney.
Table of contents: title: Out West --; title: Catalogue --; title: Fourth grade autobiography --; title: Where she is opened. Where she is closed --; title: Love poem: chimera --; title: Bower --; title: Hermit thrush --; title: Bower --; title: Self-portrait as a block of ice --; title: Bower --; title: Self-portrait as a door --; title: Swallow --; title: Love poem: Pegasus --; title: Handsome is --; title: How to be alone --; title: Whale --; title: Ceremony at the end of a season --; title: Ostrich --; title: Arkansas love song --; title: A man goes west and falls off his horse in the desert --; title: Love poem: centaur --; title: Secretary --; title: Love poem: centaur --; title: Love poem: satyr --; title: Balloon --; title: Love poem: mermaid --; title: Love letter --; title: Love poem: werewolf --; title: Little box --; title: Self-portrait as a wooden flower --; title: Commandments --; title: Love poem: griffon --; title: Archaeology --; title: Tender --; title: Winter poem --; title: Love poem: Donika --; title: Red bird --; title: What gay porn has done for me --; title: Sonnet in which only one bird appears --; title: Love poem: minotaur --; title: Santa Rosa --; title: Love poem --; title: Back East.