Displaying 1 of 1 1988 Format: Book Author: Osbey, Brenda Marie. Title: In these houses / Brenda Marie Osbey. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [1988] ©1988 Description: vii, 54 pages ; 23 cm. Series: Wesleyan poetry Wesleyan poetry. Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century. American poetry -- African American authors. Notes: 504795 ; *504796 LCCN: 87033297 ISBN: 0819521469 9780819521460 Other Number: 17202466 System Availability: 2 # System items in: 2 # Local items: 2 # Local items in: 2 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Trade Reviews Library Journal ReviewThere is more to the poems than the title reveals; the first poem is actually called ``In These Houses of Swift Easy Women.'' The houses are fineLouisiana lush, they have come through generations, and generations have come through them. But it is the women moving through them that matter. ``All you see and hear in me/ is these women/ walking in the middle of the road/ with their hoodoo in their hands.'' Young and old, soft and hard, they have all learned something, and now they teach. Their stories weave a wonderful cloth, the voices lapping and overlapping. In the houses they inhabit, ``a man could get lost.'' Even so, he could gain a lot. Louis McKee, Judge Sch., Philadelphia (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
