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This is the author s first book and winner of the 1999 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. While miscegenation has always been more a part of American history than many want to admit, Desdemona s Fire journeys through this often forbidden landscape in poems that are sometimes painfully poignant, yet fresh in their imagery and detail.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which these poems first appeared: "Poem to a Jazz Man" in Poet Lore; "The Siren's Sound" in Sojourner; and "Mlange: A Commencement" in Ploughshares.
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Page v
for all of the children halved into existence, for my mother, who took a chance on me, my father, who claimed me, and Coby, who let me be whole
Page vii
CONTENTS
I
Poem to a Jazz Man
3
Liturgy of the Light-Skinned
4
Mlange: A Commencement
6
Sisters
7
Susquehanna: The Projects
9
Susan's Hair
10
White Boys Who Sing the Blues
12
Braiding
14
Neighborhood
17
Hecate in the City
18
Searching for the Zebra Finch
20
The Last
22
Palace Cleopatra
23
Desdemona's Fire
25
II
Yellow Girl
29
My Mother as Daedalus
32
Flowers for Aurelia
34
Asthma
36
Water
38
The Girl Gymnast
39
Message from the Snowbound Girl
41
Talking with The Buddha
43
The Siren's Sound
45
The Watering Stone
47
Instruction
50
Esu Speaks the Moon
51
Odyssea Home
52
The Carpenter's Dream
54
At 57, My Father Learns to Grow Things
56
The Migrant
57
Page 1
I
... beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure. Rainer Maria Rilke
Page 3
Poem to a Jazz Man
My mother doesn't seem to remember any of this, but the music must have been sweet, cool jazz taking her like snake charm, pleasure and desire, a warm July night. The tall black man at the piano must have teased the keys into filling that hot air with speak-easy sugared sounds. She didn't have a chance. Some poor white girl from the edge of town, singing Saturdays to pay her rent, could never have known what the music could do, how the man and the piano, his fingers, his soul, could so easily enter her, grow there into a small, dark-eyed song.
Child, she would say, you are just like him.
Page 4
Liturgy of the Light-Skinned
On me you can smell a story, iron and blue slag, wooden floor boards danced on all night. There's a piano in this story and a black man whose fingers were not very long.
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