Bury My Clothes is a meditation on violence. It is a meditation on race. It is a meditation on the places at which they intersect, politically, culturally and personally. Amongst oppressed communities of colour, it is about survival. It is about establishing personhood in the world, where everything around suggests non-personhood. And as such, it establishes legacy in a culture and history of non-ownership, through the ownership of idea and ideal. The poems in this powerful collection offer a prayer, a signpost for a new, more total way to exist.
- ISBN10 1608462692
- ISBN13 9781608462698
- Publish Date 7 May 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Haymarket Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English