Presenting...Sister No Blues (Paperback)

by Hattie Gossett (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
21st Century Black Warrior Wimmins Chant
At The Convention
Bruddah Da Dreadlocks Don't Belong To You
The Cleaning Woman %labor Relations #4
Dakar %samba
Dakar %samba
Dear Landlord
Dreadlock Office Temp %labor Relations #5
For My Sisters At The Rock Seems Like We Could
Fragment #5
In Barbados Passing A Window
Is It True What They Say
Kids Throwing Stones
Kingg Kongg
Labor Relations #1
Labor Relations #2 & 3
Lunchcounter Conversation
New York City Winter Poem
A Night At The Fantasy Factory ...
Not All Breasts Are Nourishing And All Pussies Ain't Sweet
On The Question Of Fans: The Slave Quarters
Presenting ... Sister Noblues
Remember The Gogo
Soul Looks Back In Wonder
Subway Poems
Womanmansion To My Sister Mourning Her Mother
World View
Yo Daddy
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Hattie Gossett has tempered what could be considered a bellicose insanity with biting creativity to arrive at this collection of sharp critiques on the world she inhabits. She understands and resents being "a female wage slave who has had a lifetime of mostly thankless jobs and who wants out of the rat race while she still has enough creativity left to breathe life into the projects she has been dreaming." At once narrative and journalistic, poetic and academic, satirical and compassionate, her poem-vignettes need only a live reading by the author to embue them with the electricity of the life reality about which they testify so unerringly. Sister No Blues is but one of the archetypical females that Hattie Gossett recreates from the clay of history, oppression, and disenfranchisement; then, she reshapes the images through the knowledge of their dogged resurrections in the likes of poets such as herself. Not since the 1960s has a poet sounded so genuinely perturbed at the state of the world. But Gossett is not a repetition of a literary era; she is a continuation of it. "Sister Salvation" and Mrs. King Kong of the poem "king kong! kingg kongg!! kinggg konggg!!!" are fresh portraits unavailable for scrutiny in the sixties, as are the lady bus drivers who sit more frequently at the economic wheel because their seats were assured by Rosa Parks and Sojourner Truth: "back at ya I & 2." Hattie Gossett's Presenting ... Sister No Blues is the paean of an irreverent, bodacious, outrageous, vigilant, militant, and free black woman. She does not bite her tongue when the truth is hers to tell. She is a woman after my own heart, a kindred warrior with word weapons that defend a "spirit [that) couldn't take no more." She breaks grammatical convention, extends margins, truncates lines, uses upper case and lower case at will, spaces as her muse dictates, and generally breaks the rules as she travels the acid road of her art kicking and cursing, soothsaying and disclosing. And as she wams in one poem, so must I: Sister No Blues is "not recommended for the weakminded, weakhearted or those with bloodpressure troubles." -- From Independent Publisher --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 143 pages
• Publisher: Firebrand Books (October 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932379494
• ISBN-13: 978-0932379498
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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