Testify
Publisher: Octopus Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Portland; Seattle; Denver
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780986181146
Copyright date: 2017
Notes: Author information: Simone John is a poet, educator, and freelance writer based in Boston, MA. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College with an emphasis on documentary poetics. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Wildness, The Pitkin Review, Public Pool, and the Writer in the World. She is a contributing editor at Gramma Poetry. Testify is her first full-length book of poems. - Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Order of events; title: He said; title: How the man look like; title: Easy street realty haibun; title: It mighta been a rapist; title: Coda; title: Then what happened; title: Back seats; title: The wake, the funeral; title: Missed calls; title: Trayvon; title: Missed beats; title: From; title: Small talk; title: Rachel's earrings; title: Tally of interruptions; title: Any day of the week; title: On watching Rachel; title: No further questions; title: Mourning rites; title: 446; title: Twenty-five percent; title: Red line; title: That ass; title: Never forget; title: Letter to white people; title: Nigga du jour; title: Erasure; title: Rorschach test; title: Widows; title: The rules; title: Calls home; title: Twin beds; title: The currency of childhood; title: Uncle Eddie; title: Swinging; title: Streetlight sutras; title: Unbecoming language; title: Collateral.; title: Ars poetica; title: Elegy for dead black women #1; title: Cigarette; title: On [not] watching the video; title: A brief history of murder; title: Inciting incident; title: For colored girls who have been asked what's wrong; title: Lawful orders; title: Elegy for dead black women #2; title: A much more common term; title: Unanswered questions; title: Lawful orders : aftermath; title: A woman's perspective; title: Elegy for dead black women #3; title: Things I don't say to the white audience; title: Only everything I own; title: Elegy for dead black women #4; title: I tried; title: Burning; title: The poet's eulogy