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    me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun.
    me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun.
    me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun.
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    me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun.

    By Aziza Barnes

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    “Sharp as a set of teeth, illuminating like a bullet hole in a window, Aziza Barnes is a daring and vital voice. Her poems have that rare combination of inviting you in while rewarding you for revisiting her words. She is a poet who understands that writing is bloody and poetry is missed punches in dreamtime. Read these poems and look at her go.â€
    —Bao Phi, author of Song I Sing
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherButton Poetry
    Release dateJan 4, 2020
    ISBN9781943735020
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      me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun. - Aziza Barnes

      me, Aunt Jemima, and the nailgun.

      Aziza Barnes

      poems

      Exploding Pinecone Press

      Minneapolis, Minnesota

      2013

      Copyright © 2013 by Aziza Barnes

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      ISBN 978-1-943735-02-0

      Where you going? I don’t mind.

      I’ve killed my world and I’ve killed my time

      …if I live too long, I’m afraid I’ll die.

      —The Kinks

      I got a head with no screws in it—what can I do?

      —Tupac Shakur

      Contents

      Aziza meets Charlie Parker in an unspecified bar on 52nd Street

      in a jar

      consider the hand

      1997

      hypnophobia

      brown girl alien

      my mouth

      a small act

      Aziza meets the 4 women: Aunt Sarah, Safronia, Sweet Thang, & Peaches at the Cotton Club afterhours

      imitation of life

      the picnic

      moanin’: ode to Charles Mingus

      a small autobiography

      at a Mississippi crossroads, Robert Johnson’s daughter gets her blues

      the love unlimited orchestra

      Juicy (an erasure)

      Aziza meets the nailgun

      lullaby for my unborn daughter

      Addie Parker speaks to Charlie Parker, a mother’s lost advice

      a small translation

      at what/hits stop

      The Gettysburg Address (an erasure)

      no country

      Sing about Me, I’m Dying of Thirst (an erasure)

      how the world will end/slavery returns to the black man

      Notes

      So,

      me and Aunt Jemima walk into a bar, right?

      And she had bit on a mason jar for

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