Books by Kola Boof  

Nile River Woman (Poems, Feb. 10, 2004)  / Long Train to the Redeeming Sin-Stories About African Women (April 6, 2004)

 Flesh and the Devil: A Novel (May 11, 2004)  /   Diary of a Lost Girl (2007)

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A Hymn to Kola Boof                       By Rudolph Lewis I’m a sufferer you, a sufferer we, a sufferer ain’t nothing wrong with being a sufferer   Magic mother, my life began with you & your stories of African women in Long Train to the Redeeming Sin. Your bronzed uplifted breasts hang proud luscious melons / suns with black nipples.   Your passionate haughty song calls out & cannot be denied. I honeysuckle flower my way through your bars, get down in you, work my i out/in of/on you.   There’s bleeding liberation & peace  at the end of the tunnel, Nilotic Woman.   You ain’t no afrocentric wonder— no media painted Nefertiti or Ethiopian queen. You, a flesh pleasing pushover & ball buster, an Alice Walker, a Grace Jones dynamo,   no pale, faint copy of whiteness. You, a big-butt church-rocking fantasia   Nile River goddess, swimming toward me into my life, you arouse me, awaken me, viagra naturelle, you rescue me from snow cold hands   you, a salty Niger woman.   You, blue-black as Southern summer nights shunned by Jesus & Muhammad, smashed   like idols; hidden from view, daring— cicada eyes, you burrow up to sunlight, crowning spring trees & blue skies   with a ringing chorus of life & death.   Tell me again you love me let it be me that lay with you in your volcanic ocean of wonder.   I’m a sufferer you, a sufferer we, a sufferer ain’t nothing wrong with being a sufferer