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The Resource Wild beauty : Belleza salvaje : new and selected poems, Ntozake Shange ; translated by Alejandro ?lvarez Nieves

Wild beauty : Belleza salvaje : new and selected poems, Ntozake Shange ; translated by Alejandro ?lvarez Nieves

Label
Wild beauty : Belleza salvaje : new and selected poems
Title
Wild beauty
Title remainder
Belleza salvaje : new and selected poems
Statement of responsibility
Ntozake Shange ; translated by Alejandro ?lvarez Nieves
Title variation
Belleza salvaje
Creator
Contributor
Author
Translator
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
Collects more than sixty original and selected poems that frequently deal with such difficult subjects as rape, abortion, suicide, and domestic violence, with Spanish translations on facing pages
Member of
Cataloging source
CGL
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Shange, Ntozake
Dewey number
811/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3569.H3324
LC item number
A57 2017
Literary form
poetry
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1976-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • ?lvarez Nieves, Alejandro
  • Shange, Ntozake
  • Shange, Ntozake
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • African American women
  • African Americans
Target audience
adult
Label
Wild beauty : Belleza salvaje : new and selected poems, Ntozake Shange ; translated by Alejandro ?lvarez Nieves
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Parallel Spanish and English text
  • Includes a preface and translator's note in English and Spanish
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • On becomin successful
  • Nappy edges (a cross country sojourn)
  • I heard Eric Dolphy in his eyes
  • Expiriese girl wanted
  • Lady in blue
  • Take the A train
  • Dream of pairing
  • Lady in blue II
  • Lotsa body & cultural heritage/
  • Loosening strings or give me an 'A'
  • We need a god who bleeds now
  • Never mind sister
  • A third generation geechee myth for yr birthday
  • I live in music
  • Latin night is Monday
  • Mood indigo
  • Lady in brown
  • 18 March 1984
  • Live oak
  • Box & pole
  • Hands & holding
  • From okra to greens
  • Tropical dance
  • Lovin you is ecstasy to me
  • Between a dancer & a poet
  • New Orleans nuptials
  • Irrepressibly brozne, beautiful & mine
  • "If I go all the way without you where would I go?"
  • Rise up fallen fighters
  • Elegance in the extreme
  • Chastening with honey
  • Wrapping the wind
  • My father is a retired magician
  • In the blueness
  • 7 tequilas gone
  • The stage goes to darkness
  • Telephones & other false gods
  • The old men
  • Crooked woman
  • Dressing our wounds in warm clothes
  • Crack Annie
  • About Atlanta
  • Who needs a heart
  • For all my dead & loved ones
  • People of Watts
  • Lady in red
  • New world coro
  • Walk, jump, fly
  • Fame on all fours
  • Lizard poem
  • Five
  • Pages for a friend
  • These blessings
  • A word is a miracle
  • Once there were quadroon balls
  • An actual poem
  • Ode to Orlando
  • Mama's little baby
  • Chicago in Sanfrancisco & you
  • Tango
  • Toussaint
  • Just as the Del Vikings stole my heart
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Extent
xxx, 255 pages
Isbn
9781501169939
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)on1010501054
  • (OCoLC)1010501054
Label
Wild beauty : Belleza salvaje : new and selected poems, Ntozake Shange ; translated by Alejandro ?lvarez Nieves
Publication
Note
  • Parallel Spanish and English text
  • Includes a preface and translator's note in English and Spanish
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • On becomin successful
  • Nappy edges (a cross country sojourn)
  • I heard Eric Dolphy in his eyes
  • Expiriese girl wanted
  • Lady in blue
  • Take the A train
  • Dream of pairing
  • Lady in blue II
  • Lotsa body & cultural heritage/
  • Loosening strings or give me an 'A'
  • We need a god who bleeds now
  • Never mind sister
  • A third generation geechee myth for yr birthday
  • I live in music
  • Latin night is Monday
  • Mood indigo
  • Lady in brown
  • 18 March 1984
  • Live oak
  • Box & pole
  • Hands & holding
  • From okra to greens
  • Tropical dance
  • Lovin you is ecstasy to me
  • Between a dancer & a poet
  • New Orleans nuptials
  • Irrepressibly brozne, beautiful & mine
  • "If I go all the way without you where would I go?"
  • Rise up fallen fighters
  • Elegance in the extreme
  • Chastening with honey
  • Wrapping the wind
  • My father is a retired magician
  • In the blueness
  • 7 tequilas gone
  • The stage goes to darkness
  • Telephones & other false gods
  • The old men
  • Crooked woman
  • Dressing our wounds in warm clothes
  • Crack Annie
  • About Atlanta
  • Who needs a heart
  • For all my dead & loved ones
  • People of Watts
  • Lady in red
  • New world coro
  • Walk, jump, fly
  • Fame on all fours
  • Lizard poem
  • Five
  • Pages for a friend
  • These blessings
  • A word is a miracle
  • Once there were quadroon balls
  • An actual poem
  • Ode to Orlando
  • Mama's little baby
  • Chicago in Sanfrancisco & you
  • Tango
  • Toussaint
  • Just as the Del Vikings stole my heart
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Extent
xxx, 255 pages
Isbn
9781501169939
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)on1010501054
  • (OCoLC)1010501054

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