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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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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Afrocentric ain't Aurora Borealis Baron Samedi bass blood Blue Road booth Border Guard breath caller colony colour Commodore corner count crack cross Damballah damn dance dream drum eyes face Festival Frantz Fanon fuck Gate Keeper gettin glasses gold gonna know hand head hear Home Free Johnny Ace knew Lacuna felt land light limbo beneath Limbo Danced living looked Louis Stark mirror Négritude Negro nigga nigger night Northern Kingdom numbers Osiris painted border papers pick Pioneer Committee pocket Polaris polishing race rainbow realized Salt Spring Island seat shine shit shuffle skeleton key crutch skeleton key crutch-axe Snakes spinning spit stared stones Swamp of Ink Sylvia Stark talking tell there's Thicket of Tickets thought tongue tricked trying turn Vancouver Vancouver's Island walk watch WAYDE COMPTON will-o'-the-wisp wonder Zion's song
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