With More Than Tongue

by Major, Devorah

ISBN13: 9780887395116

ISBN10: 0887395112

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2003-10-01

Publisher(s): Creative Arts Book Co

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Summary

Award-winning writer, performer, and teacher devorah major became the third Poet Laureate of San Francisco in April 2002. The author of countless essays, short stories, and poems, major has presented her work across the United States, and in England, France, and Italy Her writings have been published in The Single Mother's Companion, Practicing Angels, and ZYZZYVA, among others. She received a writing fellowship from The California Arts Council for her work as a Spoken Word Artist in 2002 and a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature for her last volume of poetry, street smarts (Curbstone Press) in 1996.

The yes to life	p. 1
Yoruba woman	p. 3
Any name will do	p. 7
Race definitions	p. 9
A different curl	p. 12
Afternoon party	p. 14
She says she wants to be a model	p. 15
Brown lady in white	p. 16
Senyrus for somebody's daughter	p. 18
Janice dolores	p. 19
Warrior scars	p. 21
Year of the dragon	p. 25
Relative dangers	p. 27
Case studies of oppression	p. 29
Downtown	p. 32
Black lit class and ellison's invisible man	p. 34
Verdict	p. 37
Prisoners of war	p. 40
Writing workshop with the homeless	p. 43
Stolen lives killed and brutalized by police	p. 47
Young blood	p. 50
October ritual	p. 51
April tragedy	p. 54
For flood survivors	p. 57
Demonstrations for those who pray but will not make peace	p. 59
Peace thought	p. 62
Nommo how we came to speak	p. 64
Keeping count	p. 66
Creation paradox	p. 70
Stardust	p. 73
Green	p. 75
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