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The body family, Hope Wabuke

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poetry

The body family

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Hope Wabuke

"The Body Family is a song of memory and revelation; it is the sublime unearthing of what has been hidden by silence and erasure. This lyrical and imagistic poetry collection tells the story of a family's journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda's Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke excavates personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to wrenching life, articulating what it means to be a Black girl becoming a Black woman while navigating a diaspora haunted by British colonization and American enslavement."--Amazon.com

Machine generated contents note:, I., If Not David, Goliath, Tongue, Mouth, Exodus: Father's American Superheroes, Breath, Job (Survivor's Guilt), And after the War They Still Dream of Things Like Angels That Shield Men from the Firing, Naomi after the War, Lamentations, Refugee Mind, The Chronicles (of a Violence Foretold), II., Figure 1: Portrait of Ruth Understanding What Became of Eve in the Garden as Her Own Body as War Materials: Wind & Sand, And after the War the Women and Girls Are Still Trying to Forget, Numbers, Genesis (First Daughter's Birth), Mother after the War Is Still Talking to the Dead, Proverbs of My Father's Village, Judges, Deuteronomy, Leviticus, Stomach, Ears, First & Second Crowns: A Reverse Pantoum for Two Voices, Blood, Acts of Erasure in the Country of Nameless Women, Rib, Legs, Figure 2, Mary, Called Girl Materials: Blood & Darkness, Figure 3, La Pieta Materials: Breath & Air, Figure 4, Pieta II, Black Body as Crucifix Patterned with a Field of Skittles Crossed with Seven-UP against a Blood Red Sky Materials: White Concrete & Lead, III., Figure 5: Pieta III, after I Watch the Video of White Woman Amy Cooper Channeling Carolyn Bryant Donhom in Central Park in New York City I Have a Nightmare and Wake in Cold Sweat because All I Can See Is Your Broken Six-Year-Old Face Smashed in Pulped and Bloody Like Emmett Till's Materials: History & [ect.], Mouth II, Figure 6, The Nameless Women as a Category in ABC's Jeopardy!: A Partial List Materials: Echo & Sound, Figure 7, The Nameless Women as a Category in ABC's Jeopardy!: Appendix Answer Key Materials: Erasure & Loss, Figure 8, Ruth as the Nameless Black Girls and Women Who Flew because They Could Not Swim across the Water of the Middle Passage in the Late 18th Century When Thrown Overboard, Alive and Chained, from British Slave Ships for Collection of the Insurance Money by British Captains Who Had Done the Same to Their Animal Cargoes without Any Legal Repercussions and Thought They Could Do the Same to Human Beings because Black and Therefore Not Human or Even Animal but Only Things/Cargo as Remembered by Those Who Survived Enslavement for Generations in America and Still Remain the Accepted Prey of White Men with Guns Who Sometimes Have Badges Materials: [ect.], Breath II, Breath III, Breath IV, Skin: The Only Black Girl in School, Figure 9, Ruth as a Black Girl Walking among the Nameless Black Women Disappeared Between 1619 and the Present by Great Britain and the Americas Materials: Echo & Sound, Figure 10, Self-Portrait as Ruth Materials: Unknown, IV., Exodus II: Survivor's Walk, Figure 11, Self-Portrait as Fire and Oshun Materials: Water, PiEta IV: Revelations, Figure 12: Portrait of Black Jesus as the Naming of the Ghosts Materials: Water & Memory

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