A manual for cleaning women : selected stories

Foreword: "The story is the thing" / Introduction / Angel's laundromat -- Dr. H.A. Moynihan -- Stars and saints -- A manual for cleaning women -- My jockey -- El Tim -- Point of view -- Her first detox -- Phantom pain -- Tiger bites -- Emergency room notebook -- Temps perdu -- Carpe diem -- Toda luna, Todo Ano -- Good and bad -- Melina -- Friends -- Unmanageable -- Electric car, El Paso -- Sex appeal -- Teenage punk -- Step -- Strays -- Grief -- Bluebonnets -- La vie en rose -- Macadam -- Dear Conchi -- Fool to cry -- Mourning -- Panteón de Dolores -- So long -- A love affair -- Let me see you smile -- Mama -- Carmen -- Silence -- Mijito -- 502 -- Here it is Saturday -- B.F. and me -- Wait a minute -- Homing.

A manual for cleaning women : selected stories

Short stories. Selections

Angel's laundromat -- Dr. H. A. Moynihan -- Stars and saints -- A manual for cleaning women -- My jockey -- El Tim -- Point of view -- Her first detox -- Phantom pain -- Tiger bites -- Emergency room notebook, 1977 -- Temps perdu -- Carpe diem -- Toda luna, todo año -- Good and bad -- Melina -- Friends -- Unmanageable -- Electric car, El Paso -- Sex appeal -- Teenage punk -- Step -- Strays -- Grief -- Bluebonnets -- La vie en rose -- Macadam -- Dear Conchi -- Fool to cry -- Mourning -- Panteón de Dolores -- So long -- A love affair -- Let me see you smile -- Mama -- Carmen -- Silence -- Mijito -- 502 -- Here it is Saturday -- B.F. and me -- Wait a minute -- Homing.

The BreakBeat poets : new American poetry in the age of hip-hop

New American poetry in the age of hip-hop

An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / Turning the tables ; Wednesday poem / An excerpt from Crank shaped notes / Mascot ; Crack house ; Seventy-first & King Drive / Duck, duck, redux ; Post-white / Everything you wanted to know about hip hop but were afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped ; The keepin' it real awards / Shit to write about ; Word to everything I love ; Writing about what you know / Agate / Honorific or black boy to black boy ; Fast -- how I knew ; In defense of the code-switch or why you talk like that or why you gotta always be cussing / Shine (for Joe Bataan) ; All night / B-boy infinitives ; Kundiman ending on a theme from t la rock ; A note to Thomas Alva ; Ode to the cee-lo players / Untitled / America's pastime / Who you callin' a jynx? (after mista popo) ; Damn right it's betta than yours ; Gamin' gabby -- / Hood / Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note / Beat boxing ; Robot music / mic check, 1-2 / Ode to the crossfader ; 1989 ; Renegades of funk / Stitches ; Pull down the earth ; This is a test / How to get over (senior to freshman) ; how to get over (for my niggas) ; how to get over (for Kanye) / Break (rebirth) ; Break (sister) ; Break (embargo) / The world tells how the world ends ; Object / Bronx bombers ; What I saw was not your funeral ; At my best / Paper bag poems ; Global warming blues ; Sunday ; Possible (for Amiri Baraka) / Hip hop analogies ; Switch / From all convulsions / Quantum spit ; No homo ; Drop it like it's hottentot venus / A prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew) ; After an artis(t) talk / The future / The message ; Astronomy (8th light) / The crossover ; Jewtown ; Molemen beat tapes ; White on the block / Motherland / When 12 play was on repeat ; Upon viewing the death of Basquiat ; nameless / Elegy in gold ; Break / Say my name ; Old ladies and dope boys ; These are the breaks / Corners / It's just begun / Ciphers pt. 1 ; Vigil pt. 1 / I have a drone / Crews ; Slang ; O.P.P. / 100 bells ; Nocturne in need of a bitch ; Blossoms in the dark ; Self-portrait as slinky / Elegy for a trojan ; Ode to a star fig ; Ode to gentrification ; Ode to a killer whale / Harbor / Evolution of my block ; Evolution of my profile ; GTA : San Andreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!') / Bint ibrahim / Ha ha hum ; Adventures / If you don't know / Small poems for big / Stakes is high ; When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call ; Ars poetica in the mode of j-live Bonita applebum / Self portrait with gunshot vernacular ; Self portrait from the other side ; Thaumaturgy / To the notebook kid / A remix for remembrance, Stockholm syndrome / In search of black birds / Let me handle my business, damn / When asked about my hometown : an admission ; When asked about my hometown : an anecdote ; Love letter to Zack, the black power ranger / When I put my hands in the air it's praise / Winthrop Ave. ; We house : after Krista Franklin's definition of funk / Legend ; Ghazal for my sister ; Conspiracy : A suite ; Gravity / Ode to the first white girl I ever loved ; Home court / No country for black boys / Always & forever ; Self-portrait as exit wounds ; Prayer for the newly damned ; Daily bread / When tip drill comes on at the frat party or, when refusing to twerk is a radical form of self-love ; Unemployment ; Pluto shits on the universe / Pussy monster ; Impulse buy / On caskets ; Prelude ; Picking flowers; juke / Broken ghazal in the voice of my brother jacob / Cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend ; Twerk (v.) ; Dinosaurs in the hood ; Dear white America / Defense ; Blk girl art ; Deep in the homeroom of doom ; Daddy dozens / What the eyes saw / A suite for ol' dirty Juicy (an erasure) / Badu interviews Lamar (an erasure) ; Police / Beat writers / Four elements of ghostdance / Grand slam / This, here / My niece's hip-hop / Murder is my name / Lesson one / Art. artifice, & artifact / Artist statement / Artist statement / Artist statement / Douglas Kearney -- Artist statement / A locus of control and the erasure / Life is good : How hip-hop channels duende / Journeying to the break : The cost of the pilgrimage / The art of the mistake: some notes on breaking as making / Blueprint for breakBeat writing