Shifters

by Randy Markel James

Overview

Part memorial, part snapshot, part fancy, Shifters is a testament to the self and the act of seeing. A meditation on Blackness and queerness under duress, Shifters reacts to the power of the moment and finds joy in the power of the actor and the witness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781736396391
Publisher:	Black Lawrence Press
Publication date:	02/20/2021
Pages:	42
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Randy Markel James is an educator, editor, teacher and performer from Los Angeles, California. Some of his work has been published in Red Cedar Review, Palette, The Rumpus, Hooligan Mag, Denver Quarterly, &Change, and Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Placements 1

My Family / Remains 2

Charm & Strange & Satellite 3

Shoulders 5

Tonight Calls for a Poultice 6

Dim Light / Thanksgiving 2007 7

Ode to a Godflower 8

Deliriant 10

I Carry Her Water from the Well 11

Sum / Daze on a Hill 12

Shifters 13

Instauration 14

Diaphanous 15

Joelle (5 to 7) 17

I Woke Up Same Time He Died 18

Suede Interiors 20

Fourth of July, Five Years 22

A Marriage in Two Movements 23

A Dummy's Vent 25

Why I Write Poetry 27

Romeo & Riff 29

Máquina De Escribir Lunar (Lunar Typewriter) 31

Pictures Prone to Elopement 32

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