The plum flower dance : poems 1985 to 2005 / by Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Composition for White Critics Who Think African-American Poets Cannot Work in Contexts of Pure Concerns for Language and Post-Postmodern Twenty-first Century Inventivenessss in Lyric Expressssion Due to Their Self-Limiting Concerns with Language as a Means of Self-Expression and Racial/Cultural Identity in Poetry That Is Ultimately Perhaps Beautiful However Too Trite and Too Folksy to Be Post [//] Theorist EfficacySamâ€?s -- Zombie Dance, Tapppping the Bloodroot -- Fire -- LXIII -- My Heart -- Tuna Fish -- Sub Shop Girl -- Reunions -- PMS…”
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The plum flower dance : poems 1985 to 2005 / by Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Composition for White Critics Who Think African-American Poets Cannot Work in Contexts of Pure Concerns for Language and Post-Postmodern Twenty-first Century Inventivenessss in Lyric Expressssion Due to Their Self-Limiting Concerns with Language as a Means of Self-Expression and Racial/Cultural Identity in Poetry That Is Ultimately Perhaps Beautiful However Too Trite and Too Folksy to Be Post [//] Theorist EfficacySamâ€?s -- Zombie Dance, Tapppping the Bloodroot -- Fire -- LXIII -- My Heart -- Tuna Fish -- Sub Shop Girl -- Reunions -- PMS…”
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I DON'T WANT TO DANCE IN THE RAIN : dying to die;dying to die. by ROSE, TANYA

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- I Don't Want to Dance in the Rain -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgment -- Painting a Masterpiece -- Your Memories -- I Tried to Forget You -- Wings of a Warrior -- One More Time -- A Little Too Late -- Ghosts in the Dark -- Set Me Free -- Dying Without Dying -- The Debt -- The Race -- Dancing with Every Star -- The Walls of Confinement -- Come Back for Me -- The Ad in the Sky -- Running and Running as Fast as I Can -- You Damn Fool -- Anywhere but Here -- I Love -- Will Your Love? …”
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John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse macabre /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- John Lydgate's Dance of death. Edited texts: John Lydgate's Dance of death -- Textual notes: John Lydgate's Dance of death -- Critical notes: John Lydgate's Dance of death -- The French Danse macabre. …”
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Kiyâm : poems by McIlwraith, Naomi L

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Beautiful trouble by Fleury, Amy, 1970-

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Plume : poems by Flenniken, Kathleen

Table of Contents: “…Herb Parker feels like dancing --…”
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Plume : poems by Flenniken, Kathleen

Table of Contents: “…Herb Parker feels like dancing --…”
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Chronicles of Majnun Layla and selected poems by Ḥaddād, Qāsim

Table of Contents: “…You are the music, I am the dance --…”
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The zoo at night by Gubernat, Susan, 1949-

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The promise of hope : new and selected poems, 1964-2013 by Awoonor, Kofi, 1935-2013

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Fourth Child. by Hall, Megan

Table of Contents: “…; Seams; Star walk; Ticking; Dancing on Robben Island; Cesaria live; Dance hall; Kiss; Your red and secret lips; Wantin; Notes to the poems; Notes on the author; Back Cover.…”
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The feathered heart by Turcotte, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The eye shakes -- Horse and cradle -- Tiny warriors -- Flies buzzing -- True sign -- Indian boys -- Room still full of death -- Father's dust -- Window glass -- Unshadow -- Sky breathes sky -- Flying with the wind -- Horse dance -- Recognize stepfather -- And Betty Jean -- Under gray gods -- Folded down -- Animal shadows -- Indio -- Leads you to water -- The boy dances -- Angels we -- Hands -- This wind -- The flower on -- Feather -- Wedding -- Amber on opal -- Rain rain -- Chippewa hitch hike -- Arrow humming -- Motherdrum -- Ten thousand thousand bones -- Brother river dreams -- Cyrus calls for his pony -- Last drink -- Half blood -- Song for the endless others -- The poets coming -- Growler -- Winter -- Foreign shore.…”
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The feathered heart by Turcotte, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The eye shakes -- Horse and cradle -- Tiny warriors -- Flies buzzing -- True sign -- Indian boys -- Room still full of death -- Father's dust -- Window glass -- Unshadow -- Sky breathes sky -- Flying with the wind -- Horse dance -- Recognize stepfather -- And Betty Jean -- Under gray gods -- Folded down -- Animal shadows -- Indio -- Leads you to water -- The boy dances -- Angels we -- Hands -- This wind -- The flower on -- Feather -- Wedding -- Amber on opal -- Rain rain -- Chippewa hitch hike -- Arrow humming -- Motherdrum -- Ten thousand thousand bones -- Brother river dreams -- Cyrus calls for his pony -- Last drink -- Half blood -- Song for the endless others -- The poets coming -- Growler -- Winter -- Foreign shore.…”
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Trio by Tolmie, Sarah

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Body and the book : writings on poetry and sexuality

Table of Contents: “…The Body and the Book; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION I: DICHOTOMIES; THE RIVER GOD; SEXUAL WATER: POETRY, DIONYSUS AND THE AQUATIC APE; HUNGER FOR SALT; LOVE STORY; 'WHEN THE HORN FITS, BLOW IT': MUSIC IN EROTIC POETRY; SLOW DANCING: BEACONSFIELD 1973; SINGULARITY; SECTION II: TRADITIONS AND REVISIONS; JUDITH; POETICS OF SACRED DESIRE IN MEDIEVAL HEBREW POETRY; THE BUOYANT MILKMAN; THE TINKER AS AN EROTIC ICON; READING BETWEEN THE LINES; 'THE POEM UPON THE PAGE IS AS MASSIVE AS ANNE'S THIGHS': TEXTUAL PROMISCUITY IN TED BERRIGAN'S THE SONNETS; NOTES FROM A JOURNAL.…”
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Psychic unrest : poetry by Allen, Lillian, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…. ; OJ; The Wait of History; The Broken of a Black Man; Language; A Poem; Sapelo Island; Fall Fall Falling; Cabretta Beach; The myth of powerlessness; Contract on America; Stereotype Friggin'; Don't They Know; Swirling of Her Coffee; Mrs; De root of language; Rasta in Court; Song For Newfoundland; Fine Mary; Newfoundland's Magic; In These Canadian Bones; No Longer at Bat; The square root of impulse; poem for bp; Billie Holiday; Dem Days; We Shall Take Our Freedom and Dance; Woman of Many Hands.…”
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Corpse whale by Okpik, Dg Nanouk

Table of Contents: “…s Gyrfalcon -- Mask of Dance -- Agaviksiuvika Tatqiq: April -- The Fate of Inupiaq-like Kingfisher -- Drying Magma Near Illiamna -- Days of Next Yesterday -- Suvluravik Tatqiq: May -- Stereoscope -- Pearl Serpents in Trance -- Palmed Hands Foist Dice -- Ninilchik -- Bess and Raven -- Ibeivik: June Birth Time…”
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Corpse whale by Okpik, Dg Nanouk

Table of Contents: “…s Gyrfalcon -- Mask of Dance -- Agaviksiuvika Tatqiq: April -- The Fate of Inupiaq-like Kingfisher -- Drying Magma Near Illiamna -- Days of Next Yesterday -- Suvluravik Tatqiq: May -- Stereoscope -- Pearl Serpents in Trance -- Palmed Hands Foist Dice -- Ninilchik -- Bess and Raven -- Ibeivik: June Birth Time…”
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A map of the night : poems by Wagoner, David

Table of Contents: “…Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- 1 -- My Mother's Poem -- The First Movie -- The Other House -- My Snake -- The Fan Dance -- Whistler's Mother -- The Red Hat -- The First Tough -- Elegy for a Safety Man -- How Johnny Nolan Rescued Me -- Passing the Road Gang -- Curtsy -- Talk -- Crane Fly -- Homework in Social Studies -- Castle -- My Father's Dance -- 2 -- The Invitation -- What Do I Know? …”
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A map of the night : poems by Wagoner, David

Table of Contents: “…Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- 1 -- My Mother's Poem -- The First Movie -- The Other House -- My Snake -- The Fan Dance -- Whistler's Mother -- The Red Hat -- The First Tough -- Elegy for a Safety Man -- How Johnny Nolan Rescued Me -- Passing the Road Gang -- Curtsy -- Talk -- Crane Fly -- Homework in Social Studies -- Castle -- My Father's Dance -- 2 -- The Invitation -- What Do I Know? …”
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Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus : a biography by Jarnot, Lisa, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Textual Notes; PART ONE: CHILDHOOD'S RETREAT; 1 The Antediluvian World; 2 Native Son of the Golden West; 3 The Architecture; 4 A Part in the Fabulous; 5 The Wasteland; 6 The Fathering Dream; PART TWO: TOWARD THE SHAMAN; 7 The Little Freshman Yes; 8 A Company of Women; 9 The Dance; 10 From Romance to Ritual; 11 Queen of the Whores; 12 Enlisted; 13 Marriage; 14 Divorce; PART THREE: THE ENAMORD MAGE; 15 The End of the War; 16 The Round Table; 17 The First Poetry Festival; 18 The Venice Poem; 19 Indian Tales; 20 The Song of the Borderguard.…”
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The Pop-up Book of Invasions. by Farrell, Fiona

Table of Contents: “…Poet, Novelist and above all PatriotThe brown bull; Seed; The flood; Road; The long way round; Hair; The Hag of Beare; The Lament of the Nun of Beare; Dance; Bed; The verb 'to be'; Daffodils; Marginalia; Copyright.…”
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Ota Benga under My Mother's Roof.

Table of Contents: “…Virginia: The House on Durmid HillThe Children's Virginia; Ota's Virginia; Loss; Return to the Orphanage; Return to the Southland; Like a Wind; Ota in Woods with Boys; Forest Man; Into the Woods Alone; Fire Dance; In the Dark of Night; Lamentations; Evening Song.…”
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Clay Tablets by Aljishi, Raed

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Preface: -- Acknowledgements: -- 1-Too Young to be Drunk -- 2-The Body -- 3-Lust -- 4-A Hole of ""NO -- 5-Thirst -- 6-The Peak -- 7-Beards -- 8-Sons of Clay -- 9-Feminization -- 10-Tidings -- 11-The Shyness of Hatred -- 12-Supreme Authority -- 13-Forgetting -- 14-Lionizing -- 15-The Secret Ejaculation of a Chestnut -- 16-A Universal Corridor -- 17-A Midwife's Mirror -- 18-Standard Girl -- 19-Exaltation -- 20-A Whip of Delight -- 21-You Have No Limit -- 22-Not Defined -- 23-Wisdom is Foam -- 24-Texture of the Soul -- 25-Nothingness -- 26-Scatter of Chanting -- 27-Elite Dance…”
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Devils & Islands : Poems. by Cassity, Turner

Table of Contents: “…Dreyfus; Energy Crises; A Course in Sax Education; Production Values; Gowns by Adrian; The Garden of Yellow Jack; The Devil and Daedalus; Fashions of 1903; The Last Cigarette Girl; Dance; Free Trade in Mitteleuropa; Where Is Gutzon Borglum Now That We Need Him?…”
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Dien Cai Dau. by Komunyakaa, Yusef

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Camouflaging the Chimera; Tunnels; Somewhere Near Phu Bai; Starlight Scope Myopia; Red Pagoda; A Greenness Taller Than Gods; The Dead at Quang Tri; Hanoi Hannah; Roll Call; Fragging; You and I Are Disappearing -- 2527th Birthday of the Buddha; Re-creating the Scene; Night Muse & Mortar Round; One More Loss to Count; Sappers; Nude Pictures; We Never Know; A Break from the Bush; Seeing in the Dark; Tu Do Street; Communiqué; The Edge; Donut Dollies; Prisoners; Jungle Surrender; Eyeball Television; The One-legged Stool; Short-timer's Calendar; Thanks; To Have Danced with Death.…”
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Before the Rainbow by Doh, Emmanuel Fru

Table of Contents: “…The Girl from Port HarcourtThe Dance of Life; AIDS; Presi-Who?; Being Of Service; Profaning the Rainbow; Strange Notes; The Mind; Reminiscing; Lucifer's Priestess; Our Tomorrow; A Solitary Prayer; In Our Midst; God Is With Us; Back cover.…”
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World tree by Wojahn, David, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Mudlark Shuffle -- Freshwater Bay -- Letter to Eadweard Muybridge -- In the Domed Stadium -- Nocturne: Newark Airport -- A Decorated Ghost Dance Shirt -- Visiting Dugan -- Web Prayer for Milosz -- Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash -- Block Letters -- Sepulchre -- Talismanic -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.…”
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Washita by Lane, Patrick, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Arroyo; ars poetica; assiniboine; barranquilla; bokuseki; bonsai; boxwood; bya jhator; calligraphy; close; cowichan valley poem; dispensation; drinking stone; early promises; eli, eli; for the woman who danced with the ashes of her son; hard-rock; hiragana; hunger; iki; imago; informis; in snow when creatures awaken to such beauty; incoherence; innocence; lichen white; limbo; listen; little hell's gate; meditation in the bay of otters; merlin; midden; mujo; mute swans; no stars, the wind out of the north; off valparaíso; partita in a minor; poets, talking; qu'appelle hills.…”
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Kin : poems by Williams, Crystal, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…. ; Order of Adoption in the Matter of Minor #44478; music: two; Rites of Passage; Poem for My Sisters; A, ; Hey A, ; Johnny; Dreadlock; Exercise in Tension or Truth or Whatever; "The Cholesterol Can Make You Stupid ... "; Collard Folk; dance; Dré; Benjamin; The Prospect of Tomi-Terre; Curating the Boogie Down; Tour Guiding Our Nation' Capital.…”
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Morning Haiku by Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Morning Haiku -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- contents -- haikuography -- 10 haiku (for max Roach) -- duende -- dance haiku -- 14 haiku (for Emmett Louis Till) -- 10 haiku (for Philadelphia Murals) -- 4 haiku (for Nubia) -- 21 haiku (for Odetta) -- 3 haiku -- 4 haiku (for Eugene Redmond) -- 7 haiku (for Ray Brown) -- 6 haiku (for Beauford Delaney) -- 2 haiku (on viewing John Dowell's Tranescape) -- 4 haiku (for Max Roach) -- sister haiku (for Pat) -- 15 haiku (for Toni Morrison) -- 5 haiku (for Brother Damu)…”
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World tree by Wojahn, David, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Mudlark Shuffle -- Freshwater Bay -- Letter to Eadweard Muybridge -- In the Domed Stadium -- Nocturne: Newark Airport -- A Decorated Ghost Dance Shirt -- Visiting Dugan -- Web Prayer for Milosz -- Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash -- Block Letters -- Sepulchre -- Talismanic -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.…”
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Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight. by Watson, Samuel Wagan

Table of Contents: “…A bent neck black and flustered feather malleethe gloom swans; a black bird of my mind; fly-fishing in woolloongabba; shout-me-a-wine requiem; crust; the writer's suitcase; midnight's plague; labelled; for the wake and skeleton dance; the dingo lounge; valley man; cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale; Copyright.…”
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Old angel midnight by Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969

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No Way Out but Through. by Schwartz, Lynne Sharon

Table of Contents: “…ThesaurusTrue, Pleasant, and Necessary; Hearing Chamber Music; We Pre-Boomers; Four; Losing Touch; The Coat; Taking Out the Garbage; Yiddish; The Grandfather; Cookies Foretell a Refreshing Change; Miss Darlene's Dancing School; Surprise; Pretty Maids All in a Row; The Doctor and His Dog; How the Mighty Have Fallen; Professor Donato; Leaving; So They Are Not Alone; Notes; Acknowledgments.…”
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One-legged dancer by Uschuk, Pamela

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Holiday in the islands of grief by McDaniel, Jeffrey, 1967-

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A poet's revolution : the life of Denise Levertov by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"The walls of the garden, the first light": beginnings (1923-1933); "When Anna screamed": Levertov's response to Nazi oppression (1933-1939); The double image: apprenticeship during World War Two (1939-1946); "Recoveries": abortion, adventure, and marriage (1947- 48) -- A common ground (1949-1966). "Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?…”
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A poet's revolution : the life of Denise Levertov by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"The walls of the garden, the first light": beginnings (1923-1933); "When Anna screamed": Levertov's response to Nazi oppression (1933-1939); The double image: apprenticeship during World War Two (1939-1946); "Recoveries": abortion, adventure, and marriage (1947- 48) -- A common ground (1949-1966). "Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?…”
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