Ploughshares Pub Date : 2021-01-15 , DOI: 10.1353/plo.2020.0138 Shauna Barbosa
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has gone mad about you and your recent remarkson black life. My father suggests cremationif I die before him because it's cheaper.I want to be cremated. I've wept over a bad embalming job.Might I ask, why aren't you online talking about my eyes?Or where you go when you want to write about hunger?Remember Denzel Washington in North Carolina?What was he fighting while we held hands and watched outfor paparazzi in the theatre? You call what lies beneathan oven. Wish I were different. Wish I'd daydreamabout sour movie theatre candy stroking the roof of my mouthand not Sylvia Plath. Wish I could upload the perfect self,get you outside my house again with your driverand the big man who guards your smallness.Maybe I'll ring my dadsay I can afford my own burial:a matte black coffin, an obscure headstone. [End Page 27]
Shauna BarbosaShauna Barbosa is the author of the poetry collection Cape Verdean Blues (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Common, AGNI, Iowa Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She was nominated for PEN America's 2019 Open Book Award and was a 2018 Disquiet International Luso-American fellow. Barbosa received her MFA from Bennington College and is currently working on a compilation of stories based on her six-month residency in Cape Verde.
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对你和你最近对黑人生活的评论发疯了。父亲建议我在他面前死去时火化,因为那比较便宜。我想被火化。我为一项糟糕的防腐工作而哭泣。我可能会问,您为什么不在线谈论我的眼睛?还是当您想写关于饥饿的书时去哪儿?还记得北卡罗来纳州的丹泽尔·华盛顿吗?当我们牵着手去看剧院里的狗仔队时,他在吵什么?您称其为烤箱下方的东西。希望我与众不同。希望我能幻想着电影院的糖味抚摸着我的嘴角而不是西尔维亚·普拉斯。希望我可以上传完美的自我,让你再次和你的司机一起走出家门还有守卫你的小个子的大个子。也许我会打电话给父亲说我负担得起自己的葬礼:一个哑光的黑色棺材,一个晦涩的墓碑。[完第27页]
肖纳·巴博萨(Shauna Barbosa)Shauna Barbosa是诗集佛得角布鲁斯(匹兹堡大学出版社,2018年)的作者。她的诗在《纽约客》,《 The Common》,《 AGNI》,《爱荷华州评论》,《弗吉尼亚季刊》和其他地方都出现过或即将出版。她被提名为PEN America的2019年公开图书奖,并且是2018年Disquiet International的美籍美国人。Barbosa获得了本宁顿学院的文学硕士学位,目前正在根据她在佛得角的六个月居留权来编写故事。
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