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Black Matters
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Halifax's former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and text. Cooper translates Raussert's photos into poetry, painting a profound image of what disembodied historical facts might look like when they are embodied in contemporary characters. This visual and textual conversation honours the multiple layers of Blackness in the African diaspora around North America and Europe. The result is a work that amplifies black beauty and offers audible resistance.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Black Matters
- John Ware: Magician Cowboy
- Fugitive
- Jupiter Wise
- Uncles
- Shots Rang Out on My Street Today
- What Do You Do With the Hurt?
- For Poetry’s Sake: The Four Seasons
- Cimarron
- Guadalajara Street
- Don’t Think Twice, it’s All Right
- Lami and Nina
- Things I Like Doing
- Live With You in a House By the River
- You Dance
- Bad Bwoy Jimi
- Queen of Cool
- See-Far Woman
- A World Greener Than Eden
- Congo Songs: By the Rivers of Babylon, Part Two
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