Publisher : Rutgers University Press
and questions about the state of America
Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police
Even those policies formulated with the best of intentions may not achieve their objectives if the state is widely perceived as illegitimate and if the public is denied meaningful opportunities of participatin
the persistence of harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation
CANTATA FOR JIMMY Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Publisher : Rutgers University PressThere is quietness in this poetry that reflects deepness past its own use! Or it seems that way. Rashidah lines up the words to make statements of memory, exhilaration, passion, with a casual formality, as if she thought about that. Sometimes she is searching for openings so her deeper self can be heard. Sometimes it is that feeling that wandering, wondering attention, which she impresses herself, is an actual Rashidah. But poets rarely understand