Nepantla : an anthology for queer poets of color
Publication Information
Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England
Physical Description
iii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Notes
"This publication was produced in conjunction with Lambda Literary."--title page verso.
Contents
- Introduction
- Don't let the fascists speak / once a marine biologist told me octopuses have three hearts / I haven't had a Sazerac since Indiana / Someday I'll love the ocean / Poem about police violence / The [Black] outs : listen / Elegy with my mother's lipstick / Riot Act, April 29, 1992 / Power / Excerpt from Dream vision in blue and black / feeding my starving / Quantitative reasoning / Layover / Hurryer ___thruu [--------- ...... ++++] / On grace / for stan / Cenzóntle / Actually, yes, everything is about race / Preference / On the plane, I get so much ass / Excerpt from Food / Dominion / Raise her dark matter / Sunday morning / DataLounge - gay celebrity gossip, gay politics, gay news and pointless bitchery since 1995 / Ride the turtle's back / When Lillian posts pictures of food on Facebook, I tell her she makes me hungry / American wedding / Untitled (for Andrea Smith) / The cure for what ails you / I never wanted to speak / Things that stink / I have a time machine / Open letter to Ian Birk, Seattle police office who shot John T. Williams on August 20, 2010 / Warning / A boy with baleen for teeth / Untitled (Destroying Flesh) / Wet dream / Erasure of girlhood / Sarah Maria Medina
- She calls once that is a lie / Elegy for the living and breathing / Paisahood / Oswaldo Vargas
- The body in August / Robin Coste Lewis
- Maskot #1: "They sure do love them some black pain." / Ghazal after Quebec City / Excerpt from Inheritance / Abuela dice que spilled salt goes over the shoulder / My first memory (of librarians) / When a nigga calls you a faggot / The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window / transcript of an MTA audition / 2012 / if my slumlord allowed pets / Pluto shits on the universe / to whom it may concern: / Litanies to my heavenly brown body / I-797C Notice of Action / Catching copper / Ha ha ha niggers are the worst / Excerpt from Discipline / Ode to unsavory lesbians / I dream of horses eating cops / thirst / The clouds can't hold shit / Self portrait / Constellated / Lick my butt / Boy with thorn / Killing Mark / in the cut / Tyler, Texas / You! Inez! / To a straight man / Diva doll / suicide note #1 / Survivor 2014 / Wright Park / Consulting the bones / Heavy / The lost woods as elegy for black childhood / Self-portrait as a door / Last words of the honey bees / hyena (an absolution chant for the beloved community) / To the American Psychiatric Association - 1973 / VII / The language of dust / Kindertotenlieder / Heartbeats / Excerpt from A song of someplace yet to fall / His last stand / Boy in a stolen evening gown / Each time I did something bad / ambition / Watching a woman on the M101 Express / The bordercrosser's pillow / Step father / At L'Express French bistro my white father kisses my black mother then calls the waiter a nigger / Some like Indians endure / Cattails / I have a rendezvous with life / Fuck U's / The tattooed man / El beso / Summer of 1973 / Excerpt from Last four months / Untitled