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ISBN\u00a09781938900150
\nPublication Date: October 2015
\n48 pages, 5.3\u201d x 7\u201d
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begin again \u00a0 here where water<\/em>
\nfunnels and purls against slaver<\/em>
\nbowels \u00a0swirls over sharks\u2019 patient<\/em>
\nteeth \u00a0 here \u00a0or there where bodies<\/em>
\nare force fitted into cargo and coffin<\/em>
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Bearing an atavistic witness to the Middle Passage, drea brown ambitiously makes to write the enigmatic Phillis Wheatley\u2019s biopic, but abandons staid biography for a grotesque and hallucinatory fugue. I wondered, with\u00a0dear\u00a0<\/em>girl: a reckoning<\/em>, is the titular \u201cgirl\u201d brown\u2019s addressing of Wheatley or the Passage\u2019s ghosts addressing brown? The collapse of these two poets into each other echoes what historian Stephanie Smallwood refers to as \u201canomalous intimacies\u201d on slave ships. We see this blending again in the mix of conceptual, then formal references\u2014the horrifying schematic of the Brooks, M. Nourbese Philip\u2019s phantasmagoria, anatomical metamorphosis, and Nathaniel Mackey\u2019s nubs populate these frequently nightmarish poems rendered in forms traditional (the sonnet), contemporary (the bop), interdisciplinary (the talk-show interview), and experimental (the erasure). Feverishly urgent, vivid, and unironic, dear girl: a reckoning refuses passivity, amnesia, and despair, bringing the bones to our present to begin the work of healing. \u201cThe dead will have their due,\u201d the author writes. A promise? A threat? A blending.<\/p>\n

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drea brown<\/strong>\u2019s work has appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, most recently\u00a0Southern Indiana Review\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexande<\/em>r. A Cave Canem Fellow, drea currently lives in Austin and is a PhD candidate in Black Studies at the University of Texas.<\/p>\n

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