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  title info:
    title: I am the most dangerous thing
    sub title: poems
  name:
    name part: Williams, Candace
    name part: (Poet)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: meu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 75 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Over the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and fill the white spaces with her hard-won wisdom and love. I Am the Most Dangerous Thing doesn't just use poetry to comment on life and history. The book is a comment on writing itself. What have words done? When does writing become a form of disengagement, or worse, violence? The book is an exercise in paring the state down to its true logic of violence and imagining what can happen next. There are many contradictions. Although the protagonist teaches the same science that was used to justify enslavement and a racial caste system, she knows she will die at the hands of science and denies the state the last word by penning her own death certificate. As an educator and knowledge worker, she is an overseer of the same racist, misogynistic and homophobic systems that terrorize her. Yet, she musters the courage to kill Kurtz, a primordial vision of white terror. She is Black and queer and fat and angry and chill and witty and joyful and depressed and lovely and flawed and an (im)perfect dagger to the heart of white supremacist capitalism.
  note: Candace Williams.
  note: Poetry browsing collection : gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family.
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
  classification: PS3623.I56726 I25 2023
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9781949944525
  identifier: 1949944522
  identifier: 9781949944259
  identifier: 2022049495
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221125
    record change date: 20230712162405.1
    record identifier: in00004726335