Build yourself a boat
Publication Information
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019.
Physical Description
64 pages ; 22 cm.
Uniform Title
Summary
This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
Notes
Poems.
Contents
- Lost poem 4: Rx
- Contouring the Flattening
- Cutting w/ JB
- Imagine??? My sister an astronaut???
- Google search keywords:
- Things the block taught me
- White house
- Statement from Camonghne Felix on the murders of Jesse Washington, Stephon Clark and her attempt to understand the psychology of lynching:
- Thank God I can't drive
- Zimmerman testimonies: Day 1
- Zimmerman testimonies: Day 2
- Cutting w/ JB
- Google search keywords:
- Cutting w/ JB
- Trap queen
- On entropy
- Statement of being lonely vs. alone
- Lost poem #5: I won't even ask why
- Or, it's all in my head
- Google search keywords:
- Lesson, unmitigated
- No relief
- DISCLAIMER
- Mirror talk
- Police
- Grocery
- Sleeping on Adderall
- Zimmerman testimonies: Day 4
- Tonya Harding's fur fox
- No shade, though
- "But in what way does the blending of two slightly different cells bring about such a renewal of life?" -Freud
- Cutting w/ JB
- After the abortion, an older white Planned Parenthood volunteer asks if my husband is here & squeezes my thigh and says, "You made the right decision," and then "Look what could happen if Trump were president, I mean, you might not even be here."
- Beer pong
- Zimmerman testimonies: Day 5
- When I say the hood made me, I mean:
- Willing in the Orisha
- "But there were times when you offered your consent with older men. You chose them & you were not afraid. Why not?" -Freud
- Yes, it is possible.