I & I

Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award
Finalist, Acorn-Plantos Award for People’ s Poetry

In the “ Boogie Nights” era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from the fog-anchored grime of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to sunburnt Corpus Christi, Texas, and back — meeting tragedy and bloodshed along the way. I & I smoulders with love, lust, violence, and the excruciating repercussions of racism, sexism, and disgust. Rastafarian for “ you and me,” “ I & I” expresses the onene...