Left turns in brown study /

Left Turns in Brown Study is a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the entwinement of study and mourning. Sandra Ruiz writes for and with a chorus of departed voices, from deceased teachers to illiterate ancestors to victims of colonial violence, in order to grapple with grief and the way it is carried...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruiz, Sandra, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2024.
Series:Writing matters! (Duke University Press)
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Table of Contents:
  • The return (where we were & will be again) : an entry
  • The preturn
  • If we were dead
  • Juango & Roland
  • The past of an image
  • Splitting air
  • Where the timid take their nose for a walk
  • Miscarried
  • For the people from the stars
  • Inner city juice boxes
  • blemish (titled twice)
  • Academia descended : emancipatory love words
  • Aha! In fragments
  • Reading debts
  • To be soft
  • Necropolitical feminism
  • Let's touch
  • Incompletion as verse
  • Kimchi & tacos
  • I guess I forgive you
  • Titled twice (blemish)
  • Las Eloisas
  • With Juan Gabriel y Camila
  • Loneliness property
  • Fog
  • Suddenly a sense
  • bendición, papi
  • Found in undertone
  • Friendless
  • OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
  • AA : academia ascended
  • La Luz not mine
  • Watching dreams con Lord Lydia
  • Tainted live with a desk
  • Score for the sand
  • I remember us talking About Lacan through J
  • Anybody's anybody
  • The earless shark or still a janitor's kid
  • December's third : the endnote
  • Flawed I'm possible too or flawed impossible to
  • The future of the future
  • Ephemerality's breeze
  • Epilogues & circles
  • Altar girls en fajardo
  • End with birds (once we all flew)
  • Unbodying grunt
  • Basquiat's ride
  • Momentum's secret
  • With we
  • Ten scenes in gargoyles
  • Premonitions : unturned.