Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection,
challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up
residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss. In
radiant poems-set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of
contemporary events, pop culture, and politics-Rachel Eliza
Griffiths reckons with her mother's death, aging, authority, art,
black womanhood, memory, and the American imagination. The poems
take shape in the space where public and private mourning converge,
finding there magic and music alongside brutality and trauma.
Griffiths braids a moving narrative of identity and its
possibilities for rebirth through image and through loss. A
photographer as well as a poet, Griffiths accompanies the fierce
rhythm of her verses with a series of ghostly, imaginative
self-portraits, blurring the body's internal wilderness with
landscapes alive with beauty and terror. The collision of text and
imagery offers an associative autobiography, in which narratives of
language, absence, and presence are at once saved, revised, and
often erased. Seeing the Body dismantles personal and public masks
of silence and self-destruction to visualize and celebrate the
imperfect freedom of radical self-love.
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