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    Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life
    Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life
    Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life
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    Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life

    By Dawn Lundy Martin

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    Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life continues leading American poet Dawn Lundy Martin's investigation into what is produced in the interstices between the body, experience, and language, and how alternative narratives can yield some other knowledge about what it means to be black & queer in contemporary America.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNightboat Books
    Release dateJun 11, 2020
    ISBN9781643620541
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      LIFE IN

      A BOX

      IS A

      PRETTY

      LIFE

      LIFE IN

      A BOX

      IS A

      PRETTY

      LIFE

      DAWN LUNDY MARTIN

      NIGHTBOAT BOOKS

      New York

      Copyright © 2015 by Dawn Lundy Martin

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States

      Print ISBN: 978-1-937658-28-1

      Ebook ISBN: 978-1-64362-054-1

      Designed by Mary Austin Speaker

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      What strikes me is how easy it is to commit atrocities.

      –KARA WALKER

      MO[DERN] [FRAME] OR A PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISE ON WHAT REMAINS BETWEEN HISTORY AND THE LIVING BREATHING BLACK HUMAN FEMALE

      After Carrie Mae Weems’s Framed by Modernism (1996)

      To feel a presence, they say, can be like a haunting. You are yourself and no other physical being is there, yet a feeling or sensation emerges as if from nowhere. Like The Negress. The black female body not in repose, instead walking or clickity clack. It knocks at the door, which is the surface of existence. Or, in life, it walks down the street and is asked to assume a position of slackness in response to the perception of being in perpetual heat. What would

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