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"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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Autor principal: Imhotep, Malika Ra (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2022]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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