Just for a Thrill: Poems

Geoffrey Jacques

African American Life Series
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Contents

• Foreword

• I
• Saturday Night Fish Fry
• Bursting Out All Over
• Intrusion
• Sepia-Toned Footage
• commercial euphoria
• White Supremacy Is Not Eternal
• After Midnight
• The Present “Crisis”
• Stomp
• Mesopotamia

• II
• James Baldwin
• Well You Needn’t
• The Wonderful Fantasies of the Colonized
• Giant
• The Blab of the Pave
• Supporting Architecture
• Just for a Thrill
• Reverie
• Evaluation

• III
• The Culture of the Copy
• One Year Later
• Loose Sentences
• Don’t Blame Me
• Aimlessly Roaming Along Fifth Avenue
• What I Learned
• Humoresque
• Sunlit Frames
• Rock Serenity
• Inclusivity
• Night Language
• Amusement Without Weather
• At the Border to the Unexceptional Sky
• Six Episodes in the History of Flight
• Notice
• Bangs & Whimpers

• IV
• The Fall of Vietnam
• Threnody for Edsel Reid
• Conditions of Artificial Scarcity
• Nostalgia
• Letter to the Board