Table of Contents:
  • After Caravaggio
  • Elegies. Room 406
  • Mama's shroud
  • Four elegies
  • two elegies
  • A letter to John Berger
  • A quartet for Edward Said
  • Shadows. Gossamer world : on Santu Mofokeng
  • An incantation for Marie Cosindas
  • Pictures in the aftermath
  • Shattered glass
  • What does it mean to look at this?
  • A crime scene at the border
  • Shadow cabinet : on Kerry James Marshall
  • Nighted color : on Lorna Simpson
  • The blackness of the panther
  • Restoring the darkness
  • Coming to our senses. Experience
  • Epiphany
  • Ethics
  • In a dark time. A time for refusal
  • Resist, refuse
  • Through the door
  • Passages north
  • On carrying and being carried
  • Epilogue. Black paper.