49th Parallel Psalmarsenal pulp press, 1999 - 175 pagina's Wayde Compton's first poetry book: a stunning set of poems documenting the migration of Blacks to Canada, specifically when the first Black settlers-facing an increasingly hostile racist government-left San Francisco and travelled north to British Columbia beginning in 1858. |
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... Blues 146 Sport of the King of Kings 148 Tide 155 Wax 156 Babylon Slim's Song 157 To 160 Two Turn 161 Pillar 162 The Unbroken Yellow 164 Bluer Blues 165 49th Parallel Psalm 169 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS For my mother and father , Patricia and Levi.
... Blues 146 Sport of the King of Kings 148 Tide 155 Wax 156 Babylon Slim's Song 157 To 160 Two Turn 161 Pillar 162 The Unbroken Yellow 164 Bluer Blues 165 49th Parallel Psalm 169 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS For my mother and father , Patricia and Levi.
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Inhoudsopgave
MC | 14 |
Ex | 20 |
Records | 31 |
Jump Rope Rhyme of the 49er Daughters | 39 |
Berth Prayer | 52 |
God Save The Queen Fragment | 61 |
Biography of Mifflin Wistar Gibbs | 68 |
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