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What Yellow Sounds Like: Poems
Linda Susan Jackson
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Description for What Yellow Sounds Like: Poems
Paperback. A collection of poems that seeks to answer 'Who am I and to whom do I belong?' These poems are about the process of shaping the identity of one girl who comes from "a line of technicolor women" who have "honey/suckle buried freely in the folds of their flesh," a girl who comes from "men who bit their tongues/ate dirt, dust and their pride". Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 127.
What is most compelling about Linda Susan Jackson's debut collection of poems, ""What Yellow Sounds Like"", is the extraordinary self-possession of its young female narrator as she seeks to answer who am I and to whom do I belong? These poems are about the process of shaping the identity of one girl who comes from ""a line of technicolor women"" who have ""honey/suckle buried freely in the folds of their flesh,"" a girl who comes from ""men who bit their tongues/ate dirt, dust and their pride, worked anywhere"", and could ""soar off the ground."" The terrain of Jackson's poems is ... Read more
What is most compelling about Linda Susan Jackson's debut collection of poems, ""What Yellow Sounds Like"", is the extraordinary self-possession of its young female narrator as she seeks to answer who am I and to whom do I belong? These poems are about the process of shaping the identity of one girl who comes from ""a line of technicolor women"" who have ""honey/suckle buried freely in the folds of their flesh,"" a girl who comes from ""men who bit their tongues/ate dirt, dust and their pride, worked anywhere"", and could ""soar off the ground."" The terrain of Jackson's poems is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Tia Chucha
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781882688333
SKU
V9781882688333
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About Linda Susan Jackson
Linda Susan Jackson is the author of two chapbooks, Vitelline Blues (2002) and A History of Beauty (2001), both published by Black-eyed Susan Publishing. She was also a finalist in the 2006 National Poetry Series Open Competition. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and journals, including Gathering Ground, Heliotrope, Los Angeles Review, Rivendell, Warpland, Brilliant Corners, PMS:poemmemoirstory, Brooklyn Review 20 ... Read more
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