Imani Tolliver

 pink

1.    the safest place
2.    rain in copper and violet

3.    mudcloth

4.    my man

5.    kind of blue

6.    are you able

7.    smoke

8.    angel

9.    lithe & carob buddha

10.  the hardest part

11.  i see you

12.  the fire this time 

  Click on the image above to hear selections from "pink".

Imani Tolliver's 'pink' cd makes you want to say 'pank' ... a lot...'Pink' is an awesome project.  It so pink, it's 'pank'.  From visuals to content and back, 'pink' -- no matter how you say it -- is a poetry chart topper.
Merilene Murphy, author of Under Peace Rising and founder of Telepoetics

The next best thing to seeing and hearing Imani Tolliver live is to have a CD of her incredibly rich and beautiful voice reading these poems that are suffused, at once, with great pain and even greater hope.  She's an L.A. treasure, and I, for one, am so happy this CD exists. 

Aimee Bender, bestselling author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, Willful Creatures, The Third Elevator, and The Particular Sadness
of Lemon Cake



pink

“…and spin myself a purse in which to sleep away  the cold”

stanley kunitz

i have folded myself in

peering, parting the lips for a bit of day

look at me waving my pinky

at a pretty someone

licking honey from my fingertip

smell jasmine and sweet almond

when i kiss your cheek

touch me, i’m pink

i am a soft stone crumbling                

catch me