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Candied Yams, and: Courtin', and: What Momma Taught Me: Or How to Covet Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Diamond Forde
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Candied Yams, and: Courtin', and: What Momma Taught MeOr How to Covet Diamond Forde (bio) INGREDIENTS 4 sweet potatoes swollen with sun ¾ cup of brown sugar (molasses clung) 1 c of white sugar 1 cinnamon dash nutmeg, ginger (just a splash) 1 stick butter split into pats orange juice (another splash) 1 lemon, zested & mashed a stove warmed
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See-Through Girls Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Adrienne G. Perry
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: See-Through Girls Adrienne G. Perry (bio) We were girls you could see through. There was nothing extraordinary about us. Nothing supernatural like in a sci-fi freak show fantasy. We had thighs and torsos. Clavicles we could pinch. Boobs no bigger than a C cup until it came time for our monthlies. Wild: what non-brown, non-down folks might
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Saxophone Colossus: An Interview with Sonny Rollins Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 John A. McCluskey Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Saxophone ColossusAn Interview with Sonny Rollins John A. McCluskey Jr. (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Sonny Rollins playing at Voll-Damm Barcelona Jazz Festival in Palau de la Musica Catalana on November 20, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock. [End Page 14] Sonny Rollins was one of the most relentless
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Mapping "Independent" as Feminist Empowerment via the Musical Cross-Pollination between the U.S. and Jamaica Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Elton Johnson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Mapping "Independent" as Feminist Empowerment via the Musical Cross-Pollination between the U.S. and Jamaica Elton Johnson (bio) The people of the African diasporas in the New World converged in Panama to build a canal that would better connect our region physically. However, so too was a cross-cultural connection created. The metaphoric
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Improvisation Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Cathleen Margaret
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Improvisation Cathleen Margaret (bio) When the old quilter thinks of music,she is vision listening, responding towhispered strategies, do this, do that.She is making innovative do withforaged house fabrics strip piecedand quilted in natural progressions ofecho, sound, echo, tone and timbre,the chase of body leans acrossquilt frames around
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Celebrate, Educate, Preserve: A Conversation with Furious Flower Poetry Center's Founder and Inaugural Director, Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Dr. Sheryl C. Gifford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Celebrate, Educate, Preserve:A Conversation with Furious Flower Poetry Center's Founder and Inaugural Director, Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin Dr. Sheryl C. Gifford (bio) Dedicated to the memory of Dr. George E. Sparks, whose friendship and support of Drs. Gabbin and Gifford made this interview possible. Click for larger view View full resolution
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Excerpt From James Loves Ruth (Novel in Progress) Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Jacinda Townsend
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Excerpt From James Loves Ruth (Novel in Progress) Jacinda Townsend (bio) XXIII. James James sat slumped in his chair, watching Trevor Noah yet terrifically aware of his own wandering thoughts. Enix had come back taller—not physically, but emotionally. His only child had taken their first day back with him and chosen to dash it against
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How Can It Be a Cardinal Sin?, and: The Meat-Loving God Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Mildred Kiconco Barya
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: How Can It Be a Cardinal Sin?, and: The Meat-Loving God Mildred Kiconco Barya (bio) HOW CAN IT BE A CARDINAL SIN? Iron sharpens iron. And like attracts like in diverse forms. That cardinal over there in the rhododendron hedgerow is in love with a robin. I witnessed their courtship while sipping Earl Grey tea on my porch. The way to the
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Trouble Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Katherine Atkinson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Trouble Katherine Atkinson (bio) It is the beginning of the rainy season when you arrive with your mother and sister. The air is hot and thick. Rose shrubs bud pink and yellow against the turquoise of your grandmother's small, wooden house. There is the sweet-stink smell of fallen fruit in the air. Your grandmother looks smaller than she
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Language and Humanity in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Jennifer Ryan-Bryant
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Language and Humanity in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose Jennifer Ryan-Bryant (bio) The titular narrator of Sherley Anne Williams's 1986 novel Dessa Rose concludes the book by emphasizing the importance of recorded histories. Now that she is old, Dessa observes, "my mind wanders. This why I have it wrote down, why I has the child say
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Wittgenstein Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Andre Bagoo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Wittgenstein Andre Bagoo (bio) They bought Wittgenstein an outfit to wear on chilly nights. Both men felt he liked it so much (he jumped wildly when presented with the unicorn-patterned onesie) they went back to the pet shop for seven more: one for each day of the week plus a spare for laundry days. They took pictures of him in his pajamas
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Contributors Callaloo Pub Date : 2023-05-02
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors KATHERINE ATKINSON is a Saint Lucian writer and educator. Her fiction has been published by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, The Caribbean Writer, sx salon, and PREE, and her play, Requiem for a Badjohn, was the official selection of the 2017 Saint Lucia National Arts Festival. ANDRE BAGOO is a Trinidadian writer
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Introductory Note Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 John A. McCluskey Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introductory Note John A. McCluskey Jr. (bio) This special issue of Callaloo grew out of an annual Callaloo conference entitled "History, Meaning and the Past," held at Georgetown University in October, 2017. Framed by other scholarly presentations on mostly historical contexts for evaluations and assessments of contemporary issues, the
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Kaepernick's Kneel: Performance, Protest, and the National Football League Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Brett Carr
Abstract: By analyzing Colin Kaepernick's kneel using performance theory, we can unlock a more in-depth meaning to his protest and dig into the way freedom is accrued by Black bodies inside the athletic arena of the NFL.
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Black Female Athletes: The Politics of Resistance and the Struggle to…Be…Free… Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Delia Douglas
Abstract: This essay concerns the activism and resistance of Black female athletes. The presence of Black female activist athletes corresponds to the duration of their athletic participation at the start of the 20th century. This piece is interested in the gender-specific elements of anti-Blackness to make visible diverse Black women as both targets and activists. I offer a number of examples of Black
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Salutation to the Idiot Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Dike Okoro
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Salutation to the Idiot Dike Okoro (bio) After Dani Alves, who picked up a banana thrown by a racist fan (Barcelona versus Villareal, 2014) To make the foul-mouthed soccerfan trapped in racist tiraderethink the stupidity in monkeychants, you picked up a bananathrown at your feet, peeled it openand took a bite, uninterestedin the petrified
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At the Cut of the Boundary: On Cricket, Loss, and the Counterdoctrine's Play Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Anjuli I. Gunaratne
Abstract: This essay is both a piece of literary criticism and a creative personal narrative, which takes C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary as its starting point. The essay reads recently discovered writings of my grandfather (1922-2016), a Sri Lankan national, in order to recover his aesthetic and political practices. Sylvia Wynter has read James's Beyond a Boundary as his "quest" for Matthew Bondman;
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From Be Holding Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Ross Gay
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From Be Holding Ross Gay (bio) (Excerpted from Be Holding, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.) April 4, 2015 – Today You might have noticed there's nowhere to go,the wind cutting little eddies at your collarbonesand behind your ear, as Dr. J drives from the foul lineextended to the baseline, defended valiantly by Mark Landsberger, who
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Simone Biles: Goat Therapy Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Len Lawson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Simone Biles:Goat Therapy Len Lawson (bio) goats in the wild rushwhen they feel threatenedthey wield their crown of horns trust the spring in their haunches the velocity of their hooves in the air they know the physics of their impact north to south crushing an opponent's headsouth to north to send them off their feetfrom force to aerodynamics
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A Mathematician's Work Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Christina Dixie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Mathematician's Work Christina Dixie (bio) Constructs (amplitudes;that's it). For the nosebleedsand the code of points are counted. Or the three pointers,(solves the equation in seconds; okay have twenty-five feet)alley-oops, or the slam dunks are applied—whoosh. Over the tennis net,with winning shots and side spins.(From here, the height
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That Ass! Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Stephanie Jean
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: That Ass! Stephanie Jean (bio) i ceci n'est pas une pipe. ii who's in the jungleinterpellating excess as primitive? iii i wrote this poem about serena williams's ass. it wasn't me.not all me. mostly, it was a curtsey to a rage that was not mine.nothing to do with them boys who are her and me. iv serena fights for herself. to be.her ass
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Ode to Ronaldinho After Making the Bernabéu Applaud Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Jonathan Rowe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ode to Ronaldinho After Making the Bernabéu Applaud Jonathan Rowe (bio) he is a centaur galloping across the pitch, a current, bright & live. his sleek, sable ponytail & blaugrana stripes move so swift the commentator repeats his name like a chant. those feet are blessed. the backline tears back, their cleats & arms parting way with his
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Ernie Barnes: July 15, 1938 – April 27, 2009 Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Gideon Young
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ernie BarnesJuly 15, 1938 – April 27, 2009 Gideon Young (bio) train screechboth of my handsin Mama's hand pudgy fingerssure holdthin paintbrush sunrise dewthe long green fieldsparkles the silencejust beforethe catch [End Page 99] words they bawlfrom scorching stands…swirl of oil and violet helmets clatterin mesh bag over-the-shouldersunset
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In the Name of the Father: Creed, Mourning, and the Black Imagination Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Michelle S. Hite
Abstract: This essay asserts that when director Ryan Coogler's two earliest films, Fruitvale Station and Creed, are read together, the sustained engagement reveals how a Black radical imagination acknowledges and dignifies Black life in a context of anti-Black violence. Ultimately, the process that Coogler identifies and articulates in creating Apollo parallels the process of mourning Black lives through
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Pariahs of the Sports World: Reclaiming Autonomy Against White Supremacy Through Protest Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Apryl Lewis
Abstract: Most white sports fans embrace Black athletes when they uphold traditional ideals of American nationhood and citizenship. However, Black athletes' protests during the national anthem push against America's racial status quo, resulting in ostracism and backlash from non-athletes and their respective leagues. This article addresses how fans and league officials perpetuate white supremacy as
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The Secret Game: 5 Poems Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Morgan Christie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Secret Game:5 Poems Morgan Christie (bio) Note: On March 12, 1944, the North Carolina College Eagles played a basketball game against the Duke Blue Devils. In the midst of Jim Crow era legislation, the game was considered illegal and an infringement on regional policy and race related sanctions. There were no spectators or reports
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Oops Upside Yr Head: Black Speculative Fiction, Authenticityand the Political Metaphysics of Stick Fighting in Olufemi Terry's "Stickfighting Days" Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Whit Frazier Peterson
Abstract: The question of authenticity is at the center of discussions about identity politics today, and some authors feel this can be limiting. Recent trends in literature coming out of the Black diaspora challenge the concept of authenticity in literature, but do so from an identity politics perspective, especially in the works of what scholar Reynaldo Anderson has identified as Black speculative
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Sweet Science, Cruel Profession: The Cold War Black Boxer in Post-1945 African American Literature Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Brandy E. Underwood
Abstract: "Sweet Science, Cruel Profession: The Cold War Black Boxer in Post-1945 African American Literature," offers a fresh look at the boxer as a symbol of the Black experience during the Cold War era. Previous scholarship on boxers tend to focus on masculinity, capitalism, and violence. Reading the Black boxer's body within an international, historical framework limns new insights into how images
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The Rind Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Beto Caradepiedra
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Rind Beto Caradepiedra (bio) There, in the dim light of the small boxing room, flies climbed over the heads of fighters and the smell of brick and blood. It was our first time there. Chaflán was taken to a corner of the room where a trainer, talked strong to him, strapping a pair of thin gloves and pulling at his stained drawstrings
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Excerpt From The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy (The University Press of Kentucky, 2013) Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Pellom McDaniels III
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Excerpt From The Prince of Jockeys:The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy (The University Press of Kentucky, 2013) Pellom McDaniels III (bio) Prior to the beginning of the 1883 racing season, Isaac placed an advertisement in the March 17 edition of the Kentucky Live Stock Record, under the title "First Class Jockey." In a bold move, he offered
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Fugitively Speaking Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 C. LaSandra Cummings
Abstract: This paper locates instances of spoken methods of departing from the "common sense" behavior. Within this paper is a proffered framework for speaking fugitively—for eluding, through talk, the ordinariness of dominant structures and the spaces those structures form and work systematically to maintain. Particularly, the paper examines the performance of Marshawn Lynch, one of the National Football
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Finish What You Start Callaloo Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Renée Westbrook
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Finish What You Start Renée Westbrook (bio) I love sports because it serves my instinctive desire to compete. My affection for writing serves that very same desire, but in the hierarchy of needs falls on the border between esteem and self-actualization. When I combined my passion for sports with my passion for writing, I had no idea it
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This That Life Beyond Your Own Life Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Joshua Bennett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: This That Life Beyond Your Own Life Joshua Bennett (bio) I am not supposed to exist. I carry death around in my body like a condemnation. But I do live. The bee flies. There must be some way to integrate death into living, neither ignoring it nor giving in to it. —Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals And there are stars, but none of you, to
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Fugitive Hope: The Constitutive Life in Black Elegies Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Marquis Bey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Fugitive HopeThe Constitutive Life in Black Elegies Marquis Bey (bio) come celebratewith me that everydaysomething has tried to kill meand has failed. —Lucille Clifton, "Won't you celebrate with me" The Blackness of the Elegiac Call When attempting to find a way to navigate sociality, to navigate a Heideggerian being-in-the-world that
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Mourning under Siege: The Uses of Apocalypse in French Caribbean Letters Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Regine Joseph
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Mourning under Siege:The Uses of Apocalypse in French Caribbean Letters Regine Joseph (bio) « Heureux ceux qui écrivent sous la domination de l'âge dernier : leurs poèmes peuvent faire balles, et conforter l'espoir du nombre de leurs impacts. » —Patrick Chamoiseau, Ecrire en pays dominé, 19971 «When I wrote Bonjour et adieu à la négritude
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While Fishing Alone Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Elijah Bean
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: While Fishing Alone Elijah Bean (bio) , granddaddy diedat the bottom of a lakein a forest that knew himby his first name;been there since he was cutfrom the belly of a black doe.Black child screaming his existenceto the trees, the hills, the sky–I live!The spirit that borrowed his bodywas free to leave whenever it wantedand did;the exits
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Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Joshua Bennett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things Joshua Bennett (bio) Work might be better conceptualized by examining the range of work that African-American women actually perform. Work as alienated labor can be economically exploitative, physically demanding, and intellectually deadening—the type of work long associated with Black women's status as
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Archive as Underworld in the Modern Long Poem Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Olivia Milroy Evans
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Archive as Underworld in the Modern Long Poem Olivia Milroy Evans (bio) "Yet, the belly of this boat dissolves you, precipitates you into a non-world from which you cry out […] Experience of the abyss lies inside and outside the abyss. The torment of those who never escaped it: straight from the belly of the slave ship into the violent
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What Death Really Means Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 D.M. Aderibigbe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: What Death Really Means D.M. Aderibigbe (bio) We diluted our prayers with yawns,Morning clothedIn darkness and cold.At every sound of the bellIn the chaplain's hand,We invented our own dumbness—Holy Spirit fedOn the silence. Soon the matron's manWould kill silence with his mouthAnd feet: screaming, runningAcross the chapel. He kneltAt
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'This is what our dying looks like': Elegeía for Emmett Till Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Jared Sexton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 'This is what our dying looks like':Elegeía for Emmett Till1 Jared Sexton (bio) Emmett Till is dead. I don't know why he can't just stay dead. —Roy Bryant What will one have to say, in response to Dana Schutz's open casket? To ask this, out loud, would sound, without further inquiry or explanation, like a reference to a funeral service
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"The Heartbeats of the Past with the Pulse of the Present": Elegiac Activism and Reinterment at New York's African Burial Ground Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Michele Martin-Baron
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "The Heartbeats of the Past with the Pulse of the Present":Elegiac Activism and Reinterment at New York's African Burial Ground Michele Martin-Baron (bio) "To make Black Life Matter, we must listen to the choir of specters and its post-modern sonata encouraging us to reckon with the memorialized, inherited, and generational mourning of
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Like Priceless Treasures Sinking in The Sand Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Bernice Mbadugha
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Like Priceless Treasures Sinking in The Sand Bernice Mbadugha (bio) After "America" by Claude McKay Like priceless treasures sinking in the sandTender infant in arms. Wide-eyed in schoolBunsen burner, basketball, doo wop bandMale to man. You cast your stakes in earth's poolToe dips, hard hurls, at times a perfect diveYou unlocked granite
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"look. look. look.": The Work of Black Aesthetics in Toni Morrison's Jazz Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Jovonna Jones
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "look. look. look.":The Work of Black Aesthetics in Toni Morrison's Jazz Jovonna Jones (bio) "Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now." (Jazz, 229) Click for larger view View full resolution Silent protest parade in New York City against the East St. Louis
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Decrescendo, and: Levitation Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Tyrone S. Palmer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Decrescendo, and: Levitation Tyrone S. Palmer (bio) DECRESCENDO Or, Transubstantiation.Or, How I became a word: atavism, fetishism, lack.Write the body as absence of body as excess of body prelude to the historical ruderal matter awaiting form and purpose.Classify.Trace the difference, index the stained reticula the savage tongue the blackened
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Elegant Despair: Mourning Clothes and the Sartorial Conscience of James Baldwin's No Name in the Street Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Julia Michiko Hori
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Elegant Despair:Mourning Clothes and the Sartorial Conscience of James Baldwin's No Name in the Street Julia Michiko Hori (bio) "I could not put it on without a bleak, pale, cold wonder about the future. I could not, in short, live with it: it was too heavy a garment. Yet—it was only a suit, worn, at most, three times. It was not a very
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Contributors Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors JOSHUA BENNETT is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of four books of poetry and criticism: The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award—as well as Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020),
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While Fishing Alone Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Elijah Bean
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: While Fishing Alone Elijah Bean (bio) , granddaddy diedat the bottom of a lakein a forest that knew himby his first name;been there since he was cutfrom the belly of a black doe.Black child screaming his existenceto the trees, the hills, the sky–I live!The spirit that borrowed his bodywas free to leave whenever it wantedand did;the exits
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What Death Really Means Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 D.M. Aderibigbe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: What Death Really Means D.M. Aderibigbe (bio) We diluted our prayers with yawns,Morning clothedIn darkness and cold.At every sound of the bellIn the chaplain's hand,We invented our own dumbness—Holy Spirit fedOn the silence. Soon the matron's manWould kill silence with his mouthAnd feet: screaming, runningAcross the chapel. He kneltAt
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Decrescendo, and: Levitation Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Tyrone S. Palmer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Decrescendo, and: Levitation Tyrone S. Palmer (bio) DECRESCENDO Or, Transubstantiation.Or, How I became a word: atavism, fetishism, lack.Write the body as absence of body as excess of body prelude to the historical ruderal matter awaiting form and purpose.Classify.Trace the difference, index the stained reticula the savage tongue the blackened
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Contributors Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors JOSHUA BENNETT is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of four books of poetry and criticism: The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award—as well as Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020),
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Elegant Despair: Mourning Clothes and the Sartorial Conscience of James Baldwin's No Name in the Street Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Julia Michiko Hori
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Elegant Despair:Mourning Clothes and the Sartorial Conscience of James Baldwin's No Name in the Street Julia Michiko Hori (bio) "I could not put it on without a bleak, pale, cold wonder about the future. I could not, in short, live with it: it was too heavy a garment. Yet—it was only a suit, worn, at most, three times. It was not a very
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"look. look. look.": The Work of Black Aesthetics in Toni Morrison's Jazz Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Jovonna Jones
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "look. look. look.":The Work of Black Aesthetics in Toni Morrison's Jazz Jovonna Jones (bio) "Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now." (Jazz, 229) Click for larger view View full resolution Silent protest parade in New York City against the East St. Louis
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Archive as Underworld in the Modern Long Poem Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Olivia Milroy Evans
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Archive as Underworld in the Modern Long Poem Olivia Milroy Evans (bio) "Yet, the belly of this boat dissolves you, precipitates you into a non-world from which you cry out […] Experience of the abyss lies inside and outside the abyss. The torment of those who never escaped it: straight from the belly of the slave ship into the violent
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This That Life Beyond Your Own Life Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Joshua Bennett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: This That Life Beyond Your Own Life Joshua Bennett (bio) I am not supposed to exist. I carry death around in my body like a condemnation. But I do live. The bee flies. There must be some way to integrate death into living, neither ignoring it nor giving in to it. —Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals And there are stars, but none of you, to
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"The Heartbeats of the Past with the Pulse of the Present": Elegiac Activism and Reinterment at New York's African Burial Ground Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Michele Martin-Baron
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "The Heartbeats of the Past with the Pulse of the Present":Elegiac Activism and Reinterment at New York's African Burial Ground Michele Martin-Baron (bio) "To make Black Life Matter, we must listen to the choir of specters and its post-modern sonata encouraging us to reckon with the memorialized, inherited, and generational mourning of
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Like Priceless Treasures Sinking in The Sand Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Bernice Mbadugha
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Like Priceless Treasures Sinking in The Sand Bernice Mbadugha (bio) After "America" by Claude McKay Like priceless treasures sinking in the sandTender infant in arms. Wide-eyed in schoolBunsen burner, basketball, doo wop bandMale to man. You cast your stakes in earth's poolToe dips, hard hurls, at times a perfect diveYou unlocked granite
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'This is what our dying looks like': Elegeía for Emmett Till Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Jared Sexton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 'This is what our dying looks like':Elegeía for Emmett Till1 Jared Sexton (bio) Emmett Till is dead. I don't know why he can't just stay dead. —Roy Bryant What will one have to say, in response to Dana Schutz's open casket? To ask this, out loud, would sound, without further inquiry or explanation, like a reference to a funeral service
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Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Joshua Bennett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things Joshua Bennett (bio) Work might be better conceptualized by examining the range of work that African-American women actually perform. Work as alienated labor can be economically exploitative, physically demanding, and intellectually deadening—the type of work long associated with Black women's status as
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Mourning under Siege: The Uses of Apocalypse in French Caribbean Letters Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Regine Joseph
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Mourning under Siege:The Uses of Apocalypse in French Caribbean Letters Regine Joseph (bio) « Heureux ceux qui écrivent sous la domination de l'âge dernier : leurs poèmes peuvent faire balles, et conforter l'espoir du nombre de leurs impacts. » —Patrick Chamoiseau, Ecrire en pays dominé, 19971 «When I wrote Bonjour et adieu à la négritude
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Fugitive Hope: The Constitutive Life in Black Elegies Callaloo Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Marquis Bey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Fugitive HopeThe Constitutive Life in Black Elegies Marquis Bey (bio) come celebratewith me that everydaysomething has tried to kill meand has failed. —Lucille Clifton, "Won't you celebrate with me" The Blackness of the Elegiac Call When attempting to find a way to navigate sociality, to navigate a Heideggerian being-in-the-world that