Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent
by Thomas Glave
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Essays regarding prejudice and inhumanity, by a gay Jamaican American.Tags
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Thomas Glave is an O. Henry Award-winning author and was named a Village Voice "Writer on the Verge" in 2000. He is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (winner of a Lambda Literary Award), The Torturer's Wife (finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize), and editor of the anthology Our show more Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Cay Writing from the Antilles (winner of a Lambda Literary Award). His most recent work has appeared in the New York Times, the Kenyon Review, and Callaloo. Glave has been the Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, and a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. show less
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- Dedication
- To
Ms. Phyllis Monica Melbourne
—yet another
who (like those of our beloved
Teacher,
and others)
also knows
her true and ancient
properties - First words
- As we step from the car out onto the ground that is still muddy from last night's gentle rain, feeling it sucking at our feet as we imprint our soles on it, a light breath of spring blows the first scents of wildflowers to us... (show all): shovel in hand, I close my eyes and breathe in, deeply.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)You are—yes, magnificent water, CaribbeanAtlantic, caribe, holder of those so far down within you still, so far down within you after the centuries, so far down within you the ones who jumped some still all bones all bones O yes children old people and everyone all of them down there, down there so dark and silent, now still holding hands . . .
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- Cliff, Michelle; Katz, Jonathan Ned; Condé, Maryse; Ferguson, Roderick A.; Walcott, Rinaldo
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- Nonfiction, LGBTQ+, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 303.385 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Coordination and control Public opinion
- LCC
- PS3557 .L354 .W67 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- English
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