Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0053
Kia Corthron
A stranger to the desert I come here with my jaw jammed shut so that speech comes out like fish falling from a net. Yet I speak. Having chosen Zuni leaves no darkness roaring in my ears. The decision is … a sharp fin: We enter not by road alone. If, during the trip...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0040
Kia Corthron
You are late for your train. You linger anyway. You know a Titian is there. You looked, Madonna of the Pesaro Family. You touched St. Peter and his great book. You behold Madonna on her throne formally receiving a kneeling high military official: St. George and his soldiers....
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0047
Kia Corthron
From outside, through the window, you are watching the woman inside. You love her. You left to walk the dog. She was at the sink washing her hair. You love her best when she is like this—washing her hair, applying makeup, pulling on stockings. Unconscious moments. Degas moments....
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0046
Kia Corthron
London, morning: a dying rose in a dish. Camellia in a glass. On the windowsill: chrysanthemums drooping. Desire: an apple, red, turning yellow. Chalk Farm produce. Wine bottle with lips like roses. Plant in a jam jar. Last night we stayed up late eating oysters, drinking wine,...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0018
Kia Corthron
While in my teens in the mid-1950s in Chicago, I discovered Kenneth Patchen through reading an essay titled “Patchen: Man of Anger and Light,” by Henry Miller. This was before Miller’s Tropic of Cancer was available in the States. I had already read all of Miller’s New Directions books. Once I discovered Patchen, I read everything of his I could find. And in doing so discovered the inner world of the man’s passionate feelings and thoughts. They gave me an anchor....
20世纪50年代中期，我在芝加哥十几岁的时候，通过阅读亨利·米勒(Henry Miller)写的一篇题为《帕钦:愤怒与光明的人》(Patchen: Man of Anger and Light)的文章，我发现了肯尼斯·帕钦。这是在米勒的北回归线在美国发行之前。我已经读过米勒的所有《新方向》的书了。我一发现帕钦，就把他所有能找到的东西都读了。在这样做的过程中，我发现了这个人的内心世界，他充满激情的感情和思想。他们给了我一个锚....
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0035
Kia Corthron
—for Bud To start, I have to draw blood, find the right weakness, show my grief, just to get things moving: sweep a bit, dust my broom, and since what I’m after is so abstract, I bump hard into chrome, into the cluttered tables. This one nearly killed me:...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0007
Kia Corthron
Part Two includes the short stories “My Mother and Mitch,” “Chicago Heat,” “Bourbon for Breakfast,” “Victoria,” “Sketch,” “Innocence,” and “Five Years Ago.” The story “Innocence” (2000) combines terse declarative Hemingwayesque rhythm with a magical realism where dreams and reality merge (similarly to Reflex and Bone Structure as well as many of the poems included in the volume). “Chicago Heat,” wherein the concurrent horror and humor of African American experience rings painfully true—so many complications that death is not necessarily a prioritized development but rather just one more aggravation thrown on the daily mountain of life’s obstacles—unfoldes as a one-sided phone call. “My Mother and Mitch” centers of 15-year-old Tommy who lived in a Chicago apartment with his divorced mother, Jayne.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0001
Kia Corthron
Part One of the book contains excerpts from six of Clarence Major’s novels: Reflex and Bone Structure, My Amputations, Such Was the Season, Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar, Dirty Bird Blues, and One Flesh. Reflex and Bone Structure (1975) is a narrative of subtle clues regarding Majors’s Manhattan characters; the story then shifts to a road trip. Painted Turtle is an examination of Zuni life from the perspective of the narrator, who meets the title character as an adult and, from the stories she has told him, pieces together her existence from childhood on. The novel incorporates cultural language, traditions, and mental illness linked to the legacy of attempted race extermination. My Amputations chronicles a fictional African American poet abroad in Nice and Oxford for conference and readings. One Flesh centers on John and Susie, a black painter and a Chinese American poet in San Francisco, who are considering marriage.
这本书的第一部分包含了克拉伦斯·梅杰的六部小说的节选:《反射与骨结构》、《我的截肢》、《就是这样的季节》、《画龟:带吉他的女人》、《肮脏的小鸟蓝调》和《一个肉体》。1975年的《反射与骨结构》(Reflex and Bone Structure)讲述了梅杰斯饰演的曼哈顿角色的微妙线索;然后故事转移到一次公路旅行。《画龟》从叙述者的角度审视了祖尼人的生活，叙述者成年后遇到了主人公，从她告诉他的故事中，拼凑出了她童年以来的生活。这部小说融合了文化语言、传统和精神疾病，这些都与种族灭绝的企图有关。我的截肢记录了一个虚构的非裔美国诗人在尼斯和牛津参加会议和阅读。《一体》讲述了生活在旧金山的黑人画家约翰和华裔诗人苏茜正在考虑结婚的故事。
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0019
Kia Corthron
At a certain point early in my development as a writer who also paints, I made a conscious decision to try to understand on some sort of personal, if eccentric, level the essential, technical aspects of writing and painting. I came to this decision because I had been feeling like somebody from a remote tribal village who had accidentally learned to drive a car. I could make the car move but I had no idea ...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0050
Kia Corthron
My senses on high alert: I see ripples in frozen water, shaded. Evading my responsibility, I help the priest carry the cross. I defy my boss. I see the spilling of ink and blood. This is my untold story without glory, without the Flood. My senses in high alert: I see veins of leaves without trees....
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