Reissue of Jaki Shelton Green's acclaimed premier collection of poetry. Green's earlier works pulse with the intoxicating rhythms and fierce clarity of image that made her one of North Carolina's most popular poets. Here is an artist at turns angry and wickedly funny, demanding justice yet possessed of a refined grace.

Dead on Arrival

Literature & Fiction

Green, Jaki Shelton

Poetry

Carolina Wren Pr

I have not known your face as woman my first born/my first one/my new self I am learning to speak in whole sentences learning not to speak always in the mother tongue we are learning that we can be sisters that we can open the curtains together that we can each call morning something else

Conjure Blues: poems

Carolina Wren Press

Reissue of Jaki Shelton Green's acclaimed premier collection of poetry. Green's earlier works pulse with the intoxicating rhythms and fierce clarity of image that made her one of North Carolina's most popular poets. Here is an artist at turns angry and wickedly funny, demanding justice yet possessed of a refined grace.

Dead On Arrival: poems

A special edition poetry chapbook in celebration of Jaki Shelton Green's receipt of the 2003 North Carolina Award for Literature. Contains 8 new poems, including "Lifting Veils" dated 9/11/2001, and the long poem entitled "bring me your breasts."

singing a tree into dance (The Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, 4)

A long-awaited compendium of selections from Green's previous books as well as many new poems, including her response to 9-11-01.

Breath of the Song: New and Selected Poems

United States