To Be in the Truth of Us
Just Us attends to the ways the structural violence of whiteness shapes identity and interactions. āan essay by Dujie Tahat on Claudia Rankine
Just Us attends to the ways the structural violence of whiteness shapes identity and interactions. āan essay by Dujie Tahat on Claudia Rankine
A photo essay after the annual AWP conference (2015).
By Jack Chelgren | Special Projects Intern and Contributing Writer As a word is mostly connotation, Ā matter is mostly aura? Ā Halo? (The same loneliness that separates me Ā from what I call āthe world.ā) ā Rae Armantrout, āA Resemblanceā I. Itās afternoon not long ago. Iām listening to music in my apartment, and āThe Last Time I Saw Richard,ā the closer from Joni Mitchellās Blue, comes on. The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in ā68 And he told me, āAll romantics meet the same fate someday: Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafĆ©.ā