A Ligature for Black Bodies
Poetry. Edited by Cornelius Eady. A LIGATURE FOR BLACK BODIES attempts to re-humanize black bodies into black people by holding the power structures and people accountable who have reified a dominant…
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Poetry. Edited by Cornelius Eady. A LIGATURE FOR BLACK BODIES attempts to re-humanize black bodies into black people by holding the power structures and people accountable who have reified a dominant and destructive discourse. The collection explores the meanings of seeing police officers killing black and brown people through their dash cams and body cams as they shoot them and everyday citizens standing witness and documentarian through their cellphones. A LIGATURE FOR BLACK BODIES highlights how these videos mirror pictures that lynching attendees took and/or sent as postcards across the country in the early to mid twentieth century. Our view of dying and dead bodies today, of African Americans made lifeless while surrounded by spectators, drives the manuscript. The found poems and persona poems read as police, prosecutor, and journalist's confessions to the deaths of the Black
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