TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dameron,DéLana R.A.
AU  - Alexander,Elizabeth
TI  - How God Ends Us: Poems
T2  - South Carolina Poetry Book Prize Series
SN  - 9781611171709
AV  - PS3604.A4398 H68 200 
U1  - 811.6 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of South Carolina Press
KW  - American poetry-21st century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Lament -- I -- All Hallows' Eve -- It Is Written -- Body, an Elegy -- Oiling the Joints -- The Last Touch -- Cuspidor -- Communion -- Backseat Savior -- Black Saw-Wing -- On Seeking the Other 2/5 Up North -- Meditation -- Questions from the Jamaican Children -- Ad in the Chicago Defender -- The Leaving -- Consider This -- II -- Excavation -- Inheritance -- My Grandfather Wouldn't Know Me If He Saw -- Underneath the Brown -- I Heard It, Once -- Parable of the Hungry Missionary -- To the Man Whose Name Is "Paradise" -- The City of Discarded Umbrellas -- Even the Clouds Came to Gather -- Heartland of Columbia Nursing Home -- Israelites -- Transfiguration of Jesus in Jamaica -- Condition: If the Garden of Eden Was in Africa -- To the Black Girl in Charleston, SC, Waving the Confederate Flag -- Missionaries Lead the Children in First Steps -- Lynching Mobs -- Tree's Memory -- Prelude to Death -- Requiem for the Gulf Coast -- Buff Bay, Jamaica -- Too Late to Uncapture -- Divining -- III -- Mala Is for Meditation -- Landslide in La Jolla -- Bless -- Ode to the Camel-Hair Brush -- Closer to Knowing -- Portrait of a Seafarer -- The Body as a House -- The Space Between -- The Red Thread -- How Quickly the Sun Comes -- Wednesday Night Fish Fry -- Thursday Morning -- Joe Turner's Come -- No Longer Ashamed -- Flame -- This Sacrifice, This Love
N2  - Though she reaches for conclusions that cannot be unveiled, her investigations exhibit the creative act of poetry as a source of consolation and resolution
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