Grocery shopping with my mother Poems
Book - 2022
"When Kevin Powell's elderly mother became ill, he returned home every week to take her grocery shopping in Jersey City. Walking behind her during those trips, Powell began to hear her voice, stories, and language in a new way-examining his own healing while praying for hers"--
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- Poetry
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New York :
Soft Skull
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Soft Skull edition
- Physical Description
- 170 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781593767433
- Poet's Note
- Side 1.
- Grocery Shopping with My Mother
- A Praise Song for Sidney Pokier
- Happy
- Brotha Man
- For Miss Shirley LeFlore
- For Miguel Algarín
- For Cicely Tyson
- Call Him D-Nice
- For V (formerly Eve Ensler)
- Dear Kobe
- Letter to bell hooks
- Compass: I
- For New York City
- Hope Wanted
- Our Mothers
- The Beatles
- Side 2.
- We them people
- Tupac and Biggie
- Haiku for Black Boys
- Enough
- Baseball
- My Father
- Janet Jackson Never Lies
- When I Found Malcolm X
- America
- I am magic
- Haiku for Vangie
- Valentine Haiku
- For You
- Love
- Jamaican Love Poem
- A Love Sonnet
- Bonus Tracks
- For aunt cathy
- Reality Check
- September 11th
- Son2Mother
- Acknowledgments
- Self-Portrait
- Kevin Powell's Previous Books