Article: Exode.(circumspect penelope regards ragged odysseus)(Poem)

Article: Beta.(circumspect penelope regards ragged ...
African American Review;  June 22, 2004 ;     562 words ...beta look, look at him: this expanding contracting mystery man; now a foot taller, now looking an ordinary greek; now filled with vigor, now an exhausted worker, now looking like a god, now the despicable beggar; now fashionable a man with parts: what does he want with me old as i am; widowed in

Article: Epsilon.(circumspect penelope regards ragged ...
African American Review;  June 22, 2004 ;     572 words ...epsilon perhaps my time of freedom and reverie is up: for last night i had a dream which was more like a vision: odysseus embraced me the way he did before going to war; i was tense, my heart constricted, then the release of distillation, and wet thighs relaxing but i can't just deliver myself like

Article: Alpha.(circumspect penelope regards ragged ...
African American Review;  June 22, 2004 ;     560 words ...alpha this one too has come, like the rest of them carpet-baggers, to try his luck at impersonating my husband the unfortunate mortal who was fated to incur ancient poseidon's implacable wrath and run the gauntlet i was a mere bride when i dressed him in his war gear, and through tear-filled eyes,

Article: Gamma.(circumspect penelope regards ragged ...
African American Review;  June 22, 2004 ;     561 words ...gamma i am tired of keeping faith with a dead man's empty bed, i might have had another child now in this one-son-per-generation house; but my companion at night is my wet pillow; groaning from side to side; awaiting news from passing strangers sleep at last and immortal night have been balsam to

Article: Delta.(circumspect penelope regards ragged ...
African American Review;  June 22, 2004 ;     562 words ...delta old maid swears the great oath that he is who he is; telemachos urges that i embrace him for his absent father; now popular opinion is growing in his favor especially since there's no rival: do i have a chance to convince myself? yesterday i invented another game to while away the tedium of

Article: The Cows of Shambat.
World Literature Today;  June 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... contemporary issues. I find "An Open Letter to a Distant Friend," the Rwachkaro poems, and "Circumspect Penelope Regards Ragged Odysseus" most appealing. A poem like "Tongue-Twister" is too long without any redeeming features ...

Article: Preface.(Editorial)
African American Review;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...A word about the genesis of "circumspect penelope regards ragged odysseus is, I think, in order. As an honors student at Howard University in the sixties, I studied the classics. Later on I re-read ...