This poem was inspired by a brief remark my partner made to me one day about starlight and how it is caught by our eyes. The idea of edges and corners came to mind, as I’m always thinking about the in-between spaces of race and their complexities.
Cameron Barnett on "Corners" |
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"The Modernist Poet Who Took on Colonialism"
"This is one of the many indictments laid out in Aimé Césaire’s searing Discourse on Colonialism (1950). 'A civilization that plays fast and loose with its principles,' Césaire adds, 'is a dying civilization.' Since Césaire’s death in 2008 at age 94, as democracies devolve into autocracies and wealthy nations sidestep poorer ones on our endangered planet, Discourse on Colonialism remains prescient about the barbarity that informs civilization."
via HYPERALLERGIC |
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