Still Living on my Feet

By Tichaona Chinyelu

Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep within the trough of her Y chromosomes; lacing it with truths, humor and sisterly compassion. Still uncompromising, Ms. Chinyelu overtly articulates the primacy of black women without negating their compliment, black men. Using a sentence she coined a while back; the line of my back needed straightening more than my hair, as her muse, Tichaona retraces the spiritual experience she had in her early twenties revolving around the grandmother she never met. Drawing on her desire to respond righteously, she encapsulated that experience of love and consciousness to produce the progressive, relevant and textured writings of Still Living on my Feet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tichaona Chinyelu
• Release date: Apr 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9780978935573

Tichaona Chinyelu

Tichaona Chinyelu is a poet and author of In The Whirlwind, Still Living on My Feet & Contraband Marriage. She has conducted many interviews which include Artist First and LTH Weekly Show. Tichaona's poem Weaver Woman is featured on the main page online at Black Poetry. She is the CEO of Whirlwind Publishing. For further information visit http://tichaonachinyelu.com or contact her at [e-mail]

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Still Living on my Feet

Tichaona M. Chinyelu

Copyright Tichaona M. Chinyelu 2010

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Table of Contents

Exilation Not Exhalation

Boston Latin School

Concrete Smiles

How I Met Assata

Daddy Love

The Death of California Revisited

Decreolization Accents w/Renatta Laundry

exploring like

Older than Hip Hop

I Be

Nonsense Makes Sense

Desire

Dedication

Daily Grind

No Queen to King Am I

Metaphor for Decades

Wanton Woman

Without Each Other

Sun Love

Young Black Love

Sisterly Relaxation

Exilation Not Exhalation

we are called immigrants

like leaving our essence be

hind us

was our choice

a hundred percent

our choice

so many we hear

say we want to go back

weeping eyes look pon de newscast

of de latest disaster

preventing we from going back

unbearable

buried deep

yearn

we carry

for the land

that witnessed

our birth

first