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Bittering the Wound
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A firsthand account of the 2014 Ferguson uprising that challenges how we document and report on political unrest.
Jacqui Germain's debut collection, Bittering the Wound, is a first-person retelling of the 2014 Ferguson uprising. Part documentation, part conjuring, this collection works to share the narrative of the event with more complexity, audacity, care, and specificity than public media accounts typically allow. Throughout the book, Germain also grapples with navigating the impacts of sustained protest-related trauma on mental health as it relates to activism and organizing. The book also takes occasional aim at the media that sensationalized these scenes into a spectacle and at the faceless public that witnessed them.
Bittering the Wound challenges the way we discuss, write about, and document political unrest. It offers fresh language and perspective on a historic period that reverberated around the world. Germain takes the reader through poems that depict a range of scenesâfrom mid-protest to post-protestâand personifies St. Louis with a keen and loving eye.
Bittering the Wound was selected by Douglas Kearney as the winner of the 2021 CAAP Book Prize.
Jacqui Germain's debut collection, Bittering the Wound, is a first-person retelling of the 2014 Ferguson uprising. Part documentation, part conjuring, this collection works to share the narrative of the event with more complexity, audacity, care, and specificity than public media accounts typically allow. Throughout the book, Germain also grapples with navigating the impacts of sustained protest-related trauma on mental health as it relates to activism and organizing. The book also takes occasional aim at the media that sensationalized these scenes into a spectacle and at the faceless public that witnessed them.
Bittering the Wound challenges the way we discuss, write about, and document political unrest. It offers fresh language and perspective on a historic period that reverberated around the world. Germain takes the reader through poems that depict a range of scenesâfrom mid-protest to post-protestâand personifies St. Louis with a keen and loving eye.
Bittering the Wound was selected by Douglas Kearney as the winner of the 2021 CAAP Book Prize.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- On This Day
- Thine Eyes, Thine Eyes
- By the Grace of the Gaze
- What We Purged before the Fight
- For the Street That Held Us
- On Courting the Fire
- A List of Items Recovered from Protesters
- What Is Known as Paranoia or Maladjusted Self-Defense
- Nat Turner Comes to the Highway Action
- We Called It a âWarâ Because It Was Useful, or Alternate Names for Tear Gas
- The Streetlights Christened Us Saved (or At Least Salvageable)
- Flatland
- On the Chemical Properties and Uses of Dried Blood
- For the Hooked Knife
- A Series of Proofs, Explained
- Self-Portrait Framed in Life between Protests
- Terrible and So, So Alive
- How the Fires Got Misnamed
- The One Where They Watch the Directorâs Cut Because It Has an Edgier Ending
- Self-Portrait Standing in a Field of Text Messages, All Sent and All Blooming Unanswered
- The Grill Shop as an Armory
- Oh, the Love We Had Back Then Survived the Smoke
- Homebound
- All Ash, An Anointing
- How to Make South Grand a Ghost Town
- American Fear: Directorâs Cut
- Obscenities, but as a Prayer
- Dripping Villanelle for the Burned Walgreens, QuikTrip, Prime Beauty, et al.
- Ulcer (with Footnotes)
- I Bend and the Tender Joint Buckles
- Kindling
- It Didnât Rain Much That August, but After
- Pick One, It Says
- Brick-Made and Steady
- Still Unbuttoned and Unbothered: On Imagining That Freedom Probably Feels Like Getting the Itis
- Acknowledgments