Research Catalog

Title

Ancestors : a project of the Boston Review Arts in Society Program / guest edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ed Pavlić, & Ivelisse Rodriguez.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Boston Review, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982-
• Pavlic, Edward M. (Edward Michael)
• Rodriguez, Ivelisse

Description

221 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"In Ancestors, some of today's most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others. Are we shaped by family, the deep past, political forebears, inherited social and economic circumstances? Can we choose our family or is blood always thicker? And looking forward, what will it mean to be ancestors ourselves, and how will our descendants remember us?" -- Page [4] of cover.

Series Statement

Boston Review Forum, 0734-2306 ; 17

Subjects

• Poetry
• Essays
• Short stories
• African Americans > Poetry
• American poetry
• Genealogy > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Short stories.
• Essays.
• Poetry.

Note

• Editors' Note / Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Adam McGee, Ed Pavlic, & Ivelisse Rodriguez -- ORIGINS. Binguni! // fiction / Binyavanga Wainaina, Introduced by Achal Prabhala -- DNA and Our Twenty-First-Century Ancestors // essay / Duana Fullwiley -- Two Poems / Kyoko Uchida -- The Millions // Essay / Deborah Taffa -- Two Poems / Diamond Forde -- Meditations on Lines // poetry / Felicia Zamora -- Ancestral Wealth: The Sacred Black Masculine in My Life // hybrid / Tyehimba Jess -- Skylarking // fiction / Racquel Goodison -- Two Tributes // hybrid / Terrance Hayes -- The Baker's Tale // fiction / Reginald McKnight -- RUPTURES & TRANSFORMATIONS. No More Sorrow Songs // fiction / Metta Sáma -- Dog Tiger Horse // fiction / Yeoh Jo-Ann -- Shopping for Blouses // poetry / José B. González -- Two Poems / Cheswayo Mphanza -- Two Poems / Ocean Vuong -- [Evidence: Personal Effects] A Purse Full of Black // poetry / Vuyelwa Maluleke -- Companion Animals // fiction / Domenica Ruta -- "Room, Room, Room, in the Many Mansions of Eternal Glory for Thee and for Everyone" // poetry / Day Heisinger-Nixon -- On Anonymity // poetry / Bennet Bergman -- ONWARD. Straight Down to the Bones // interview / Sonia Sanchez interviewed by Christina Knight -- Proofreader // poetry / Tyree Daye -- Women Who Fly: Nona Hendryx and Afrofuturist Histories // essay / Emily Lordi -- Night Picnic // fiction / Izumi Suzuki, translated by Sam Bett.

Contents

Editors' Note / Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Adam McGee, Ed Pavlic, & Ivelisse Rodriguez -- ORIGINS. Binguni! // fiction / Binyavanga Wainaina, Introduced by Achal Prabhala -- DNA and Our Twenty-First-Century Ancestors // essay / Duana Fullwiley -- Two Poems / Kyoko Uchida -- The Millions // Essay / Deborah Taffa -- Two Poems / Diamond Forde -- Meditations on Lines // poetry / Felicia Zamora -- Ancestral Wealth: The Sacred Black Masculine in My Life // hybrid / Tyehimba Jess -- Skylarking // fiction / Racquel Goodison -- Two Tributes // hybrid / Terrance Hayes -- The Baker's Tale // fiction / Reginald McKnight -- RUPTURES & TRANSFORMATIONS. No More Sorrow Songs // fiction / Metta Sáma -- Dog Tiger Horse // fiction / Yeoh Jo-Ann -- Shopping for Blouses // poetry / José B. González -- Two Poems / Cheswayo Mphanza -- Two Poems / Ocean Vuong -- [Evidence: Personal Effects] A Purse Full of Black // poetry / Vuyelwa Maluleke -- Companion Animals // fiction / Domenica Ruta -- "Room, Room, Room, in the Many Mansions of Eternal Glory for Thee and for Everyone" // poetry / Day Heisinger-Nixon -- On Anonymity // poetry / Bennet Bergman -- ONWARD. Straight Down to the Bones // interview / Sonia Sanchez interviewed by Christina Knight -- Proofreader // poetry / Tyree Daye -- Women Who Fly: Nona Hendryx and Afrofuturist Histories // essay / Emily Lordi -- Night Picnic // fiction / Izumi Suzuki, translated by Sam Bett.

Call Number

Sc D 22-833

ISBN

• 9781946511553
• 1946511552

LCCN

2021286562

OCLC

• 1244774447
• 1244774447

Title

Ancestors : a project of the Boston Review Arts in Society Program / guest edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ed Pavlić, & Ivelisse Rodriguez.

Publisher

Cambridge, MA : Boston Review, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Boston Review Forum, 0734-2306 ; 17

Added Author

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982- editor.

Pavlic, Edward M. (Edward Michael), editor.

Rodriguez, Ivelisse, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-833

JFE 21-7543