Post-Dissertation-Intervention (ii.)
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What was once writing about Stereotype turns to elsewhere: I have this image I can’t escape. If I describe it to you, you may lose your soup, or perhaps, your bowels. What of torture? Looking back from looking at one torn open after the next. Sometimes the body, hung upside down, was severed completely in half, but mostly, the crotch to head cut was slow, saw stopped at the spine or ribs, to prolong pain. While the delineation of violence is clumsy, the fact is, you translate what eats you, and leaves you suffering, something timely, something undone, but to make the connection from being burned, ripped, sawed, and being constantly displayed— I am looking into that, too. [End Page 243]
Ronaldo Wilson is author of two volumes of poems, Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and Poems of the Black Object, winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry. Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is also a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
