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- W2023176105 abstract "On Hearing of a Death in Prison Barbara Chase-Riboud (bio) For George Jackson Blois, August 21, 1971 I heardA wailing, mournful, sacredSong,A bitter, screaming, humpingSong,A positively displeased Nigger'sSong,A Maximum SecuritySong,A river of bile,Har-Monica fresh filled withSalty blood.I taste itMyselfNow. I heardA silent GeorgiaBadlandsSong,Flat-outIn the damned blackOf the American sky,White speckled withFilthy stars,Spangled,Cold as ice,Cold as Hell.Frozen overOut there,OneDies. [End Page 955] I heardA teeth-grinding, heart stripping lover'sSong,A fine jazz ricochet of desire,Drizzling gall,Sex-starved and slave-chained inSongs of sixpence,The inherited penalty of painPassed from father to son inSongsOf penitentiaries:San Rafael,Folsom,San Quentin,Alcatraz,Soledad. I heardA never-ending song ofSolitude,Eleven years of putrid cement,Nailed downWith bulletsAnd theConstitutionFor six-seven dollars net,A song eleven years to sing ofSolitary confinement,Excrement thrown,The total pride of death,The soul-destroying body search,A rape of every aperture,A curse so foulMen cry. I heardBlack notes on lined paper,Barred,Dropping wounded daysOf manhood lostIn gut-punctured, spine-shatteredDeath,Death of the spirit,Death of the bowels,Death in the white heat [End Page 956] Of a charred sunlit court,So lonely it seizesThe heart,That hoarded, dreamed ofMoment of LifeThe last. I heardA clamorous, clapper-tonguedSound,The holocaust of Easter Week,A trenchant trill,Quivering in hear overThe Entire Race,Blue desert women,Wind and sand whipped pillarsStretching across Africa,Tattooed hands held overThat obscene opening,Kohl-ed eyes weepingColored tears for Colored Men,Red veils aspired in RageIn Rage, In Rage, In Rage. I heardA SongSo rich in gut and sweatThat any sperm would flower there,And any SongRejoice in beingNotFor singing. [End Page 957] Barbara Chase-Riboud Barbara Chase-Riboud, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a sculptor, poet, and fiction writer who studied visual art at Temple University, Yale University, and the American Academy in Rome, before she moved to Paris, France. Her writing career began in 1974 with the publication of From Memphis & Peking: Poems. She is also author of six other books, including Hottentot Venus: A Novel, Echo of Lions, and Sally Hemings: A Novel, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in 1979. Chase-Riboud began her career as a visual artist as early as the 1960s, when she exhibited her work at the New York Architectural League Show, the Festival of Negro Art in Dakar in Senegal, and the L'Oeil Ecoute Festival in Avignon, France. Since that time, her work has been mounted in museums throughout the United States and Europe. Copyright © 2009 Barbara Chase-Riboud" @default.
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