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Dorothea Smartt
CONNECTING MEDIUM I
CONNECTING MEDIUM I
CONNECTING MEDIUM I
Sea of lights heading into J.F.K. at nightscaled up megamix
of everything I knew to be
industrial, urban
i started my period on the descent
hunter moon following me
reflecting in a winding river below
guiding me
thru’ sets off t.v. cop shows
and a Black bourgeoisie
the town of Harlem
up Lennox to 132nd
© 2013, Dorothea Smartt
From: Connecting Medium
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, Leeds
From: Connecting Medium
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, Leeds
Dorothea Smartt
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1963)
Dorothea Smartt has been a prominent voice for black women poets since the 1980s, called by her mentor Kamau Braithwaite the ‘Brit-born Bajan International’. If this sounds like a movement, call it a movement towards voice, as Smartt claims for her work what she refers to as her ‘two voices’: her ‘London voice’ of standard English, and her ‘Bajan voice’ – the voice of her childhood and her dre...
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CONNECTING MEDIUM I
Sea of lights heading into J.F.K. at nightscaled up megamix
of everything I knew to be
industrial, urban
i started my period on the descent
hunter moon following me
reflecting in a winding river below
guiding me
thru’ sets off t.v. cop shows
and a Black bourgeoisie
the town of Harlem
up Lennox to 132nd
From: Connecting Medium
CONNECTING MEDIUM I
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