gossypiin /
"Gossypiin is a Black feminist hypertext that registers the feeling of an experience of the world in which the self is an unstable plurality continuously unmade. It is a story marked into the flesh of the poet, transferred onto the page through a process of distillation. It is an enactment of B...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pasadena, CA :
Red Hen Press,
[2022]
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Contents
- Gossypium herbaceum
- What We Gathered Here to Do
- Sow
- My daddy says I've misremembered
- Copresence II
- _____'s Rape
- Ma Dear
- Lil Cotton Flower births themself out of the forced togetherness of a quiet wound
- Obscure Origins 2: The Player
- Obscure Origins 1: The Sculptor
- Lil Cotton Flower sings / them self a song
- Seedling
- The first time I heard the story
- after mama sighs
- exile in pursuit of the New South
- Grandma Sarah's maiden name was Moody
- Wild Wimmin Don't Worry
- My mother dreams
- Grandma Sarah ain't finish the seventh grade
- earth bound
- A Question of Attunement
- Flower
- I ain't know when I laid down on the floor crying
- endurance
- the hermit-woman takes a lover
- Some nights talking to god
- "somebody forgot to tell somebody something"
- amenorrhea
- anovulatory or fugitivity at the meeting place of my thighs
- the poet stares longingly into a black queer elsewhere and feels themself unravel
- madrigal para las vientres negras
- Notes toward the integration of a traumatic event or the scene of my own subjection
- Miss Graham tells my younger self a blue joke
- mammy-made potion
- Fruit
- Da Peach Squad
- One of Four Women Walking Down Peachtree Street Licking Herself
- Lil Cotton Flower Tells a Story
- Mammy Councils Her Kin
- Home is a mouth full of spit for your tender heart
- Harvest
- my mama tells a story
- Second Trimester
- Grandma Sarah mourns her only son
- Copresence I
- grief-borne power
- When prompted I remember
- Overstimulated
- Dispatch from a writing workshop in 2015 in which I am the only nigga alive
- all the blk things cry sometimes
- Copresence IV
- This ain't quite memorial
- rememory
- Lil Cotton Flower's First Will and Testament
- Credits
- Gratitude
- Chorus
- Back Cover