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- She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry Program
summary
Brilliant, lyrical, and passionate, this collection from the acclaimed poet M. NourbeSe Philip is an extended jazz riff running along the themes of language, racism, colonialism, and exile. In this groundbreaking collection, Philip defiantly challenges and resoundingly overthrows the silencing of black women through appropriation of language, offering no less than superb poetry resonant with beauty and strength. She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks was originally published in 1989 and won the Casa de Las Americas Prize. This new Wesleyan edition includes a foreword by Evie Shockley. An online reader's companion will be available at http://nourbesephilip.site.wesleyan.edu.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- And Over Every Land and Sea
- Adoption Bureau
- p. 3
- The Search
- p. 5
- Dream-skins
- pp. 6-8
- Cyclamen Girl
- The Catechist
- p. 12
- The Catechism
- p. 14
- Transfiguration
- pp. 16-17
- The Communicant
- p. 18
- Discourse on the Logic of Language
- pp. 29-34
- Universal Grammar
- pp. 35-42
- Testimony Stoops to Mother Tongue
- pp. 51-56
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819575685
Related ISBN(s)
9780819575678
MARC Record
OCLC
920674042
Pages
110
Launched on MUSE
2015-09-12
Language
English
Open Access
No