Scenes of Negotiation

What Country Is This?

Rereading LeRoi Jones’s The Dead Lecturer.

The Witness Takes a Stand

June Jordan wrote from her experience in a woman’s body and a dark skin, though never solely “as” or “for.”

Dislocations: Seven Scenarios

The Eye of the Outsider

On the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop.

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