Synopses & Reviews
As Angela Jackson has developed as a poet, her poetry has engaged various artistic perspectives yet always maintains a characteristic combination of compassion, grace, and daring. Drawing from earlier works contained in chapbooks,
And All These Roads Be Luminous is filled with a world of characters engaged in explorations of identity, sexuality, creativity, and spirituality--all revealed through a passionate verse brimming with surprises.
Review
"Like the magician she is, [she] constantly surprises us with an unforeseen twist that turns cliché and commonality into manna and nectar." --
Black Book ReviewReview
"[S]inuous and inexhaustible exhalations, complex riffs rich in sensuous detail and resonant with psychological insight." --
BooklistAbout the Author
Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951 Greenville, Mississippi) is a poet, playwright and writer.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
VooDoo/Love Magic
And All These Roads Be Luminous
Strolling
Fish Fry: On the Cleaning and Eating of Secrets
The Love of Travelers
Blue Milk
Moment
My Dream Bo
Joyce Says
Choosing the Blues
Chain Gang
Beauty Bread
The Fitting Room
Why I Must Make Language
Ifa as Eve
The Village Women and the Swinging Guests (of Tarzan and Jane)
Embracing Hansel and Gretel in the Trickle-Down Time of American Famine
Mexico City, 1985
On Reading Matter
The Outcast Learns the Language of Birds
In Dark Bounty: In Memory of St. Charles Lwanga Faith
Community
The Resolution
Faith
Too Sweet
Angelhair
The Gulf of Blues
Hattie
Caesura
Dr. Watts Meets the Man with the White Liver
Dr. Watts
The Man with the White Liver
Mules and Women
Dark Legs and Silk Kisses
Arachnia : Her Side of the Story
Miz Rosa Rides the Bus
Lust: African-American Woman Guild
Rock and Roll Monster: Down Home Blues Goes Hollywood
The Midnight Market of Memory and Dream
grits
greens
in an african light
Wares for the Man Wherever This Song Is
Hootchie Cootchie Man
Mr. Snake, I Don't Like You
Doubting Thomas
Monroe. Louisiana
On the Train that Glides from Plane to Plane
another time, the forms of famine
The Cost of Living
Practicing Patience
Remembering
The Bloom Amid Alabaster Still
The God of Fire
The God of FIre
The Autumn Men
A Woman Along the Way
Litany
Cayenne
Fire Is Absolute
So This is How the Women
Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E
Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E
Mr. Solomon and His Queen
Woman in Moonlight Washes Blues from Dreams
Festival
The Witherspoons: Walk Up, Bell Out of Order
The Mother Behaves Like a Young Woman and a Lover when Nat King Cole Comes on the Box
Black Atlanta Mother Waits at Window, 1981
The Brother Guild Calls the Game on Sunday Afternoon
Loving
Woman Pitting Fruit at the Kitchen Window
Miz Sheba Williams: As Told to the Reporter from the Community News Front
PoemMaker
Who Would Trade It? Who?
Making the Name
Song of the Writer Woman
Sojourner: Traveling Light
Rain
Woman Watches Ocean on a Reef through a Glass-Bottomed Boat
Conversation with Catalpa Tree
A House of Extended Families
Kinsmen: An Address
greenville
john jackson
home trainin
The Robinsons
early evenings
other evenings
aunt beebee
in my father's garden
Angeline, Daughter of Alcie
Willie Mae
Cook County Hospital, 1962
Make/n my Music
a summer story
Memories/The Red Bootee
I Break My Own Heart
if i tole you
Second Meeting
Angel
Veneration: Maturity
george, after all, means farmer
Our Kitchen
One Quasi-Sonnet from the Portuguese
a beginning for new beginnings
Haiti: 1979
Poems from FESTAC '77
the ways we will deny ourselves
one slip of the tongue
parentage
Flags
steveland
A Wedding Reception
What I Said as a Child
Journey to Africa