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Lewis, Erica

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mahogany (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Wesleyan University Press

mahogany is about the passing of time and unimaginable loss, strength, humor, and love mahoganytakes its name from the dark wood prized for its durability, workability, and elegant look, and from the Diana Ross movie, whose theme song asks if what lies ahead is what you really want. This book is the third in a trilogy, and like the first two books it is steeped in pop music. Each poem here takes its title from a line of a Diana Ross and The Supremes song, as well as songs from Diana Ross' solo career. Short lines flow down the page like postmodern psalms, connecting dailyness to timelessness, merging the historical and the beloved through reverence for family, music, and the life we actually live. mahoganyis a lament for the passing of time and unimaginable loss, and at the same time it models the daily search for joy, and the deep shine that can arise from the darkest times. [sample poem] i'm like a woman who once knew splendor* sometimes i feel like the pink panther all naked and pink lost in the morass of do the best you can today and nigga heal thy self our end of winter spirits break like old tibetan snow i remember you was conflicted and i found myself alone here on my ancient hurt the disquieting hum of living history dear god, please put my head above my heart we can only be together if the stories are told plain face same instrument just a couple of coke bottles full of gasoline like god and rain is a waste of time my mother used to clean houses as a child some days i can barely get out of bed in my mind she's like diana ross scrubbing the white lady's stairs in lady sings the blues except prettier and with green eyes i've just been living off of cough drops and water and anger just sitting in the whole foods parking lot eating pineapple i am literally the definition of "hot mess" pain changes everything somebody come and pick up my limp body off the ground i am dying a slow ohio death we miss you starman it's our first sunrise of the burn * "dark side of the world"erica lewis

Poetry. What happens when you take something like a pop song and turn it in on itself, give it a different relevance or frame of reference, juxtapose the work against itself, against other pop music, bring it into the present, experience it in a different way? This book is a new revising of the confessional. It's about having to grow up, about those feelings we want to get back to, the people we want to get back, the people we've had to let go. Humor, love, and responsibility. Selected from among the nearly 400 manuscripts submitted to our open reading period, each poem in DARYL HALL IS MY BOYFRIEND takes its title from a line of a Hall &amp; Oates song. The poems here are not "about" Hall and Oates songs or what they "mean," but rather what is triggered when listening to or thinking about the music, those feelings, experiences, and memories, that specific nostalgia attached only to the sort of pop music Hall and Oates created.

daryl hall is my boyfriend

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Barrelhouse Books

Being of African American, Native American, and white descent, erica lewis’ poems recount her friends and family’sespecially the women'scomplex history with race, gender, and class in America, what it means to live with your own history, and how to move on. Each poem is framed by phrases from the lyrics of Stevie Wonder’s Motown records, but the poems themselves are homages to her women kin, friends, and other contemporary women poets. And the dominant motif is brokenness."By intertwining the public and the personal, Lewis's poems become a membrane through which pop culture permeates the most intimate experiences of selfhood." Publisher’s Weekly

mary wants to be a superwoman

Parenting & Relationships

Third Man Books

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