Acknowledgments. Bottom power -- Power bottom -- I. Bop : black queer southern studies -- OnTybee Island -- On Tybee Island -- Deep root -- Malcolm Tariq's black bottom -- A woman hangs a cotton boll wreath on her door -- Niggerhead -- Index to the American slave -- Slave play -- Self-portrait as George Washington's teeth -- The road to Chocolate Plantation -- II. On Stone Mountain -- Sugar -- Niggerhead -- Callie Barr's black bottom -- Grandma's black bottom -- The body politic -- Drapetomania -- 1 yearning -- Nocturne : without sanctuary -- Malcolm Tariq's black bottom -- Self-portrait as an unmarked grave -- On Sullivan's Island -- III. Fucking [with] Ralph Ellison -- Fucking : A : Proclamation -- Heed the Hollow -- Malcolm Tariqu's black bottom -- Common feast -- Learning to bottom -- Addendum -- Cento in which the narrative precedes the lyric -- IV, Tabby -- Bottom power -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"With beguiling shade and a sensuous portrait of bottom epistemology, Malcolm Tariq's "Heed the Hollow" delivers upon us bittersweet experiences of black queer life in the South. Each poem builds upon the next, inscribing on the mind's eye the interiority of lives at once familiar and strange, their lyricism leaping from the poet's pen to the page to prick the ear of the reader's sinless soul. I cannot unhear these poems. Their whispers shout in the hollow, speaking in un/holy ghost tongues. Malcolm Tariq is the new / black / southern / queer / poet pastor come to town to save us all. I surrender all to "Heed the Hollow." - E. Patrick Johnson, back cover.
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