TY - BOOK AU - Brewer,Caleiph Ken'yon TI - The poetic zeal SN - 1425730612 (hardcover) AV - PS3602.R46 P64 2006 U1 - 811.6 22 PY - 2006///] CY - [Philadelphia, Pa.] PB - Xlibris KW - American poetry KW - African American authors N1 - Personal reflection. Quest; Amour propre; Beneath billboards; A pain in my eye; In the bar; Twilight; SF: The cafeÌ on market street; Hunger; Tenors of spring; Dysfunctional house -- Haiku. Aspiration; Perseverance; Common sense; Rule of thumb; Coin flipper; Meditation; Antiques; Traffic watch; Ballroom euphoria; Villa on deck; Godsend gospel; For the all woman; Drunkard tantrum; House chore; Vanity; Prunes and prisms; Redolence; Poetic zeal -- Societal. Hierarchy; All night vigil; God bless our children; Letter to a dead president; Lower bottom; Negotiated education; Cultural normality; Hard economics; Pickets across a nation; On Elian Gonzalez; Field of view; Kindred spirit -- The Arc of patriotism. Infamous bearing; Omen; Deployment; Habbinayah; Inferno; Paying homage; Non compos mentis; Survivor's guilt; Airborne B-767 convoy -- Love and arts. Mambo sentimental; Latin jazz passion; Promethean; Podium and poet; On nights like this; In these words, Italian; Los sentimientos estaÌn alli (The feelings are there); Confide with this; Equipoise mint; Between sheets -- Acknowledgements -- Biography ER -