South flight / Jasmine Elizabeth Smith.
2022
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Title
South flight / Jasmine Elizabeth Smith.
ISBN
0820360902 (paperback)
9780820360904 (paperback)
9780820360904 (paperback)
Published
Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
88 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Exhibited
2022-2023 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1252961470
Summary
In her debut poetry collection, Jasmine Elizabeth Smith takes inspiration from Oklahoma Black history. In the wake of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Jim Waters makes the difficult decision to leave behind his lover, Beatrice Vernadene Chapel, who as a Black woman must navigate the dangerous climate that produced the Jim Crow South and Red Summer. As Beatrice and Jim write letters to one another and hold imagined conversations with blues musicians Ida B. Cox, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Ethel Waters, and the ghosts of Greenwood, the couple interrogates themes of blues epistemology, Black feminism, fraught attachments, and the way in which Black Americans have often changed their geographical regions with the hope of improving their conditions. The poetry collection South Flight is a eulogy, a blues, an unabashed love letter, and ragtime to the history of resistance, migration, and community in Black Oklahoma.
Note
Poems.
Includes notes (pages 85-88).
Includes notes (pages 85-88).
Formatted Contents Note
pt. I Blacktown Blues of Oklahoma
Jim Waters Makes Parable of Seed
Beatrice's Prayer to Be Reborn in the South as an Old Cypress
Beatrice Repents on the Behalf of Nature
[Greenwood Ghosts Dress Their Sunday Best]
[Jim Imagines a Drink with Lead Belly after the Lynching of Lloyd Clay]
Beatrice Interprets a Night Terror
Jim Recalls the Soldier He Once Was
Beatrice Contemplates the Wild Dog Killing Prey
Love Letter on the Eve of Revolution
Beatrice Begs Jim to Pull Out Her Bad Tooth
Freedmen Ghosts Make Preparations for Juneteenth
Jim Writes His Marriage Vows
[Jim Imagines the Ghost of Robert Johnson at the Cross-Roads]
Beatrice Advises Fathers When Jim Makes Way to Crossroads
Jim Recalls His Birth as a Wasp
How to Break a Generational Curse (& Other Lessons my Grandmother Has Taught Me)
[Father's Ghost Sees Jim Waters Off at the Santa Fe Railway Station]
pt. II Weeping for Spilt Milk: An Interlude
Ils M'ont Nommée la Marinière
For Phillis Wheatly at Water's Edge
Indigofera
From the Southern Slave Medical Companion
Mulatto
Drowned & Reborn
Bodies Seen at or Disposal Sites: In Lack of Carnations
Historic White DET653
Zouzou
pt. III Correspondence from Chicago, Illinois, to Boley, Oklahoma
Correspondence from Boley, Oklahoma, to Chicago, Illinois
pt. IV Black Town Blues: Greensborough, Oklahoma
Beatrice Forges Jim's Love Letter
Beatrice Reads the Almanac to Forecast the Growing Season
[Boley Ghosts Haunt Jim]
Beatrice Visits the Church
Beatrice Imagines Ida Cox Pays Her a Visit at Her Dressing Vanity
B's Ascension to Bee
Beatrice & Gladys Bentley Discuss the Fortune of Livin Alone
pt. V [Jim Imagines He & Charley Patton Pick a Boweavil from Backyard Chicago Crop]
Jim Waters Sweet-Talks Beatrice about the Paradox of Blackness, Our Good Lord & Gold
Jim Writes Beatrice a Letter That Will Never Be Sent
Beatrice Forges Jim's Admission of Guilt
Jim Prays a Healing over B's Affliction
Correspondence from Boley to Chicago
Correspondence from Chicago to Boley
Jim Revisits the South
Beatrice Airs Out the House before Jim's Return
An Inventory of Her Blues
B Contemplates a Reconstructed South
Beatrice Makes Shadow Puppetry of Jim on a Sundown Billboard.
Jim Waters Makes Parable of Seed
Beatrice's Prayer to Be Reborn in the South as an Old Cypress
Beatrice Repents on the Behalf of Nature
[Greenwood Ghosts Dress Their Sunday Best]
[Jim Imagines a Drink with Lead Belly after the Lynching of Lloyd Clay]
Beatrice Interprets a Night Terror
Jim Recalls the Soldier He Once Was
Beatrice Contemplates the Wild Dog Killing Prey
Love Letter on the Eve of Revolution
Beatrice Begs Jim to Pull Out Her Bad Tooth
Freedmen Ghosts Make Preparations for Juneteenth
Jim Writes His Marriage Vows
[Jim Imagines the Ghost of Robert Johnson at the Cross-Roads]
Beatrice Advises Fathers When Jim Makes Way to Crossroads
Jim Recalls His Birth as a Wasp
How to Break a Generational Curse (& Other Lessons my Grandmother Has Taught Me)
[Father's Ghost Sees Jim Waters Off at the Santa Fe Railway Station]
pt. II Weeping for Spilt Milk: An Interlude
Ils M'ont Nommée la Marinière
For Phillis Wheatly at Water's Edge
Indigofera
From the Southern Slave Medical Companion
Mulatto
Drowned & Reborn
Bodies Seen at or Disposal Sites: In Lack of Carnations
Historic White DET653
Zouzou
pt. III Correspondence from Chicago, Illinois, to Boley, Oklahoma
Correspondence from Boley, Oklahoma, to Chicago, Illinois
pt. IV Black Town Blues: Greensborough, Oklahoma
Beatrice Forges Jim's Love Letter
Beatrice Reads the Almanac to Forecast the Growing Season
[Boley Ghosts Haunt Jim]
Beatrice Visits the Church
Beatrice Imagines Ida Cox Pays Her a Visit at Her Dressing Vanity
B's Ascension to Bee
Beatrice & Gladys Bentley Discuss the Fortune of Livin Alone
pt. V [Jim Imagines He & Charley Patton Pick a Boweavil from Backyard Chicago Crop]
Jim Waters Sweet-Talks Beatrice about the Paradox of Blackness, Our Good Lord & Gold
Jim Writes Beatrice a Letter That Will Never Be Sent
Beatrice Forges Jim's Admission of Guilt
Jim Prays a Healing over B's Affliction
Correspondence from Boley to Chicago
Correspondence from Chicago to Boley
Jim Revisits the South
Beatrice Airs Out the House before Jim's Return
An Inventory of Her Blues
B Contemplates a Reconstructed South
Beatrice Makes Shadow Puppetry of Jim on a Sundown Billboard.
Awards
The Georgia Poetry Prize, selected by Ilya Kaminsky
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