
When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb
Poem Talk
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The Importance of Gathering Paradise
South Asians perform anti-Blackness as a form of a centuries long aspiration to be white. The second part of that sentence is referring to the erasure and destruction of an equally long history of coalition between Black and Brown folk. And I think we need to return to that movement period of activism for Asian American poets, especially in a moment that's presented in curp.
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