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Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
COME DOWN NANSI (2000)
Longtime Back in the Beginning
who speaks
14
1
To Baby Nansi's Head
15
1
The Coin of Birth
16
1
Flesh to Fancy
17
3
Anancy's Thoughts on Colours
20
1
How Anansi Got Last Yam
21
1
How Ananse's Waist Suffered a Double-Dine Dilemma
22
2
How Worksong Call-and-Response Came To Be
24
2
How Anansi Won Who-Is-Oldest Contest
26
2
How Wisdom and Commonsense Were Scattered
28
1
How Tiger Played Dead and How Anansi Played Along
29
2
The Coming of Debt
31
2
How Dance and Sores Spread Far and Wide
33
1
How Anansi Helped Skygod Get One Hundred Slaves from Earth
34
5
When Water Was All the Talk in the Rafters of History
everspinning grandmother Ma opened
39
1
the Word
40
1
even then I knew water
41
1
The stranger's cloth billows on water
42
1
Small voices weep
43
1
Ocean caul
44
1
Eight-limbed star
45
1
water stand up
46
1
where whispers fill
47
1
from grandmother Ma
48
1
Hide talking drum
49
1
in sunweb of steel I squatted
50
1
in time's cosmic courtroom
51
1
Ceiling Thomas
52
1
The diasporic dice
53
1
It's weaving time, my people
54
2
Not on Holiday
The Embodiment
56
1
Anancy's Thoughts on Clock
57
1
Dethatched
57
1
Anancy's Thoughts on Hospitality
58
1
Board Games
59
1
How Nansi Got Lead Part in Swan Lake
60
1
Musicologist Anancy
61
1
My Brollie
62
1
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Old Tie
63
2
When Anansi Goes Walkies with Eight Dogs
65
1
All Seasons Nansi
66
2
How Aunty Nancy Converts the Intruder
68
1
The Nansification of NF
69
1
Aunty Nancy's Sound Check
70
1
Anancy's Thoughts on Love
71
1
How Nansi Reigned Over a Royal Bath
72
1
Nansi Airobics
73
1
Anancy's Thoughts on Couples
73
1
Aunty and Uncle Nancy's Pillow Talk
74
1
How Aunty Nansi Singularly Widened the Debate on Plural Identity
75
1
Inner-City Anancy
76
1
Anancy's Website
77
1
Anancy's Voice Mail
77
1
How Aunty Nansi Reshuffled Prospero's Books
78
2
Anancygrams
80
2
After a playful bout
82
3
from LIMBO DANCER IN DARK GLASSES (1983)
Whether male or female
85
1
Limbo Dancer's Wombsong
86
1
Name
87
1
Limbo Dancer's Morning
88
1
The Reason
89
2
Question Mark
91
1
Once
92
1
Limbo Dancer & the Press
93
1
Limbo Dancer at Immigration
94
2
Beware of Limbo Dancer
96
2
Why?
98
1
Limbo Dancer at the Orgy
99
1
Not My Style
100
1
Out of the Question
101
1
Take a Tip
102
1
Getting High
103
1
Not Again
104
1
Limbo Dancer's Reading Habits
105
1
Limbo Dancer at the Conference Table
106
2
Limbo Dancer's Soundpoem
108
1
Limbo Dancer's Mantra
109
1
Rainbow
110
1
Limbo Dancer's Memo
111
2
Look
113
1
Sign
114
2
At the Crossroad
116
2
from MAN TO PAN (1982)
Pan Recipe
118
2
On new ground we scatter old drum seeds
120
1
Messages pour
121
2
Those drums!
123
1
They mean to license we tongue
124
4
Deliver
128
1
Born naked
129
1
Let each hammer blow
130
1
is the sinking
131
1
Rivulets of melody
132
1
Rubber tip
133
1
For hands honed by pan grooves
134
1
Pan
135
1
Steelpan
136
1
Spiderwheel of steel
137
1
When you hear
138
1
When I tell you
139
1
Flight of fingers
140
1
Fly?
141
1
All this pan-beating
142
3
Goatskin tongue
145
3
Street turn river
148
1
But cynic as I am
149
1
De road going groan today
150
1
I suppose it's necessary
151
1
Earth moving to greet feet
152
1
In a rain of sounds
153
1
Hear it at Hosein
154
2
Reflections
156
1
Is more than a snapshot mirror
157
1
Ogun
158
2
When I crouch over
160
3
God hear me is you I talking to
163
1
When you talking pan
164
1
I ain't know head or tail
165
1
Lick pan
166
1
Beat it out man
167
3
was like a return to me
170
5
Scatter a handful of pan
175