Heed the Hollow : poems /

"With beguiling shade and a sensuous portrait of bottom epistemology, Malcolm Tariq's 'Heed the Hollow' delivers upon us bittersweet experiences of black queer life in the South. Each poem builds upon the next, inscribing on the mind's eye the interiority of lives at once fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tariq, Malcolm (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019]
Subjects:	American poetry > 21st century. African Americans > Poetry. American poetry > Southern States. Gay erotic poetry, American. Self-acceptance > Poetry. Gender identity > Poetry. Blacks > Race identity > Poetry. POETRY / American / African American. African Americans. American poetry. Blacks > Race identity. Gender identity. Self-acceptance. Southern States. 2000-2099 Poetry.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / by Chris Abani
Power bottom
I. Bop : black queer southern studies
OnTybee Island
Deep root
Malcolm Tariq's black bottom
Woman hangs a cotton boll wreath on her door
Niggerhead
Index to the American slave
Slave play
Self-portrait as George Washington's teeth
Road to Chocolate Plantation
II. On Stone Mountain
Sugar
Niggerhead
Callie Barr's black bottom
Grandma's black bottom
Body politic
Drapetomania
1 yearning
Nocturne : without sanctuary
Malcolm Tariq's black bottom
Self-portrait as an unmarked grave
On Sullivan's Island
III. Fucking [with] Ralph Ellison
Fucking : A : Proclamation
Heed the Hollow
Malcolm Tariqu's black bottom
Common feast
Learning to bottom
Addendum
Cento in which the narrative precedes the lyric
IV. Tabby
Bottom power
Notes
Acknowledgments.