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Bessie smith Fred Moten (bio) seance open-lid eyes called back a long time longed long long and driven hold for a redelivery giving you back what you keep— or a parable or romance photographer unidentified give breath John's gala brightness of James through the snow of another village or strange on the other hand your shit comes so heavy satin shadow for—song for—circle for long longed up under two perfumes hair shines so shows shone so that it comes so hard on you pierce so blunt that you off to the side for and turn smile long long say she move through the black velvet curtain Fred Moten Fred Moten teaches at the University of Southern California. He has published a number of poems and interviews in such periodicals as nocturnes, Grand Street, The World, boundary 2, Five Fingers Review, Poetry Project Newsletter, and Callaloo. His scholarly articles have appeared in many journals and collections, including Cambridge Opera Journal, Hambone, Performing Hybridity, and Women and Performance. He is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and of Stolen Life, which is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Copyright © 2004 Charles H. Rowell
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