Repair (Boston Review)

by Ed Pavlic (Editor), Ivelisse Rodriguez (Editor)

Overview

We bear deep wounds, individually and collectively. All have been worsened by a period of destructive politics that left us ill-equipped to respond to a global health catastrophe. As we struggle to recover our footing and grieve our dead, we believe that the arts must have a voice in the conversation about how we heal.

This anthology draws together a wide range of artists and thinkers, established and emerging. In essays, memoir, poetry, fiction, and comics, contributors explore what it might look like to repair. Topics include the Salem witch trials, climate catastrophe, the January 6 siege of the Capitol, gender identity, the failures (and hope) of Western medicine, and the entwined horrors of racial, sexual, and colonial violence.

No single text in this volume offers a definitive answer for what it means to repair. But together, they reveal a promising vision for where to go from here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781946511683
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	04/05/2022
Series:	Boston Review / Forum
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Ed Pavlić is the author of Live at the Bitter End; Who Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener; Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno; and other books. He is Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia.

Ivelisse Rodriguez’s short story collection, Love War Stories, was a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is founder and editor of an interview series published in Centro Voices, the e-magazine of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note Adam McGee Ed Pavlic Ivelisse Rodriguez 6

Part 1 Repair

We Would Hex the President But Kemi Alabi 9

How Nations Heal Colleen Murphy 10

What Justice Looks Like Farah Jasmine Griffin 25

Three Poems Donia Elizabeth Allen 38

The Fight for Reparations Cannot Ignore Climate Change Olufémi O. Táíwò 41

Heat Index

Fiction Emma Dries 61

Part 2 Revive

The Protagonist in Somebody Else's Melodrama Randall Horton 81

Two Poems Adebe DeRango-Adem 93

Two Poems Maya Marshall 97

Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine Brian Teare 103

The Kindness Thief

Fiction Meredith Talusan 121

Smell of Wings Kim Hyesoon, translated Don Mee Choi 127

Part 3 Repay

Three Poems Savonna Johnson 131

Dear Mothers, We Are No Longer Lost

Fiction Yiru Zhang 134

Two Poems Simone Person 149

The Tailor Bishakh Som 152

The Captive Photograph Ariella Aïsha Azoulay 157

Mamabird Aureleo Sans 178

Contributors 189