Aurora Americana: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

Cover
Contents
Aurora Americana
Solemnity
Fanon’s Country
Missiles
The Rage: 11 August 2017
The Hiss
Blue Circles
Blue Neon
City of Saudade
Consideration
Parade
Pastime
Sugar Snap Peas for Fannie Lou Hamer
The Emperor of Terracotta Roofs Confronts the Jester
Americana: A Becoming
The Turning
The Moth in the Dryer
Impossibility
Canceled Flights: An Odyssey
Democracy Americana
Levitation
Crisis
Fanon’s Banania 1953
Fanon in Tunis after Tunis
Fanon Considers the Jester
Fanon in Bethesda
Gaza Ghazal: Blue Dissent
Miss Algeria after Viewing The Battle of Algiers
Oblivion
Muhammad Ali at La Luna but Not the Boxer
My Lebanese Friend Buys Blue Contacts in Beirut
No Longer
On Valentine’s Day a Pool in Aleppo
The Champions
The Panther in Lisbon
The Jester Lives in the Pale House Built by the Enslaved
The Slur during Ramadan
This Scheme of Making
Reading
Her Yellow Dress
Sometimes I Believe I’m a Moroccan Poet Exiled on Mars
Mr. Coltrane It’s Autumn in These Mountains
Musicians in Red: A Summoning
Dusk into Dawn: The Rippling
Blue over Bicycles
Folly
For Roundness
Jawad’s Flock in Mohammedia
Neither Atlantic nor Mediterranean
Performance Day in the Vaulted Theater
The Spaceship in Tamri
Aubade: Troposphere
Adoration
Tachfyn’s Cats
Reflecting
The Almost Life
The Water My Love
The Wheels Then Seagulls
Ode to Tangle
Farewell Mountain
To the Linear
Notes
Acknowledgments