The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony
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The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
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The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony

About this book

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman's speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.

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Information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9780803266865
eBook ISBN
9780803278578
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
African Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword by Kwame Dawes
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Silhouette
  10. Epigraph
  11. I
  12. Ordinary Heaven
  13. Words We Lost in the Water
  14. Unsolicited Witness
  15. To Abel
  16. Sugar
  17. Section 8
  18. The Key
  19. First Red Dress
  20. Admonitions
  21. Twigs
  22. Verse of Hairs
  23. My Father Drops His Larynx
  24. Denotation
  25. Connotation
  26. Parable of the Leaf
  27. How to Make a Shadow
  28. II
  29. Intangible Quality
  30. Women Brewing
  31. Diviner of Teacups
  32. The Kitchen-Dweller Presents Evidence
  33. Trouble
  34. Her House Is the Middle East
  35. That Which Scatters and Breaks Apart
  36. Invocation
  37. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Interlude
  38. The Kitchen-Dweller Testifies
  39. Desertion
  40. The Offended Tongue
  41. When the Fire Is Not Enough
  42. Clearing the Land
  43. Situations Wanted
  44. The Figures
  45. Convoluted Mattress
  46. Water
  47. For the Woman Whose Love Is a Bird of Passage
  48. The Man Who Puts Dirt on His Head
  49. III
  50. The Glass Images
  51. To the Angel of Accounts on a Holy Night
  52. Tonight
  53. Visitant
  54. The Pilgrims
  55. Woman, Ego, Shadow
  56. The Woman in the Field
  57. Gnats
  58. Apparition One, Apparition Two
  59. Amber Doll
  60. Ken
  61. Hotel Party
  62. Princess Di in an Afterlife
  63. My Brother Receives His Kingdom under a Tree
  64. Proud Flesh
  65. The Albatross Holds a Note in Her Bill
  66. The Trumpet Testifies
  67. Following the Horn’s Call
  68. The Beetle
  69. A Dove Sings for Young Lovers
  70. Western Gate
  71. About Ladan Osman
  72. Series List