In this Issue

Table of Contents

In Memory of Edouard Glissant

Celia Britton
pp. 667-670
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0156
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Remembering Edouard Glissant

J. Michael Dash
pp. 671-675
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0167
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A Legacy to Brazil and the World: Remembering Abdias do Nascimento

Anani Dzidzienyo
pp. 676-681
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0178
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from Four Movements

Chris Abani
pp. 682-697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0189
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The Body You Remember

Gary Jackson
p. 698
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0200
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Dora and Saraya

Helon Habila
pp. 699-701
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0140
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Reading at 4:00 A.M.

Pamela Mordecai
pp. 702-705
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0151
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Beyond Description: Ekphrasis and the Expanding Lens

Vievee Francis
pp. 708-710
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0163
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Cinder

Tiffany Austin
p. 711
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0174
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Cotacachi

Tiffany Austin
p. 712
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0185
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Woman Being Held by Two Policemen

Carlo Paul
p. 713
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0196
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Bonfire Monument

Carlo Paul
p. 714
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0136
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Postcards, A Self-Portrait

Nandi Comer
p. 715
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0147
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The Wreck of Colossus

Nandi Comer
p. 716
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0159
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The City on the Edge of Forever

Kevin Vaughn
pp. 717-718
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0170
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The Menagerie, Part II

Kevin Vaughn
pp. 719-720
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0181
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Framing Our Ground: Ekphrastic Poetry in the Workshop

Gregory Pardlo
pp. 721-723
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0192
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Answering Questions with Questions

Ravi Howard
pp. 724-725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0203
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They Thought They Were Invincible

Amanda Choo Quan
pp. 726-729
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0143
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In America

NoViolet Bulawayo
pp. 730-739
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0154
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Home Song

Cindy King
p. 740
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0165
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South Central

Truth Thomas
pp. 741-743
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0176
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An Interview in Zion: The Life-History of a Jamaican Rastafarian in Shashemene, Ethiopia

Giulia Bonacci
pp. 744-758
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0187
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Five Women Poets on Nature

p. 759
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0205
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On Black Nature: African American Poets Reflect

Camille T. Dungy
pp. 760-762
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0138
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Black Nature / Human Nature

Evie Shockley
pp. 763-766
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0149
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Cruise Line

Evie Shockley
pp. 767-768
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0161
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“Haitian Miracle: Girl Survives 15 Days Under Earthquake Rubble”

Evie Shockley
p. 769
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0172
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Blessed Condemnation: Interconnection and Reverence in Black Nature

Remica L. Bingham
pp. 770-772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0183
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Something Divine Let Go

Remica L. Bingham
pp. 773-775
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0194
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All the Wild Swarm

Remica L. Bingham
pp. 776-777
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0134
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Confessions of a Pseudo-Nature Writer

Amber Flora Thomas
pp. 778-780
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0145
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Killing the Rabbit: Ars Poetica

Amber Flora Thomas
p. 781
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0157
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The Killed Rabbit

Amber Flora Thomas
p. 782
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0168
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Swarm

Amber Flora Thomas
p. 783
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0179
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Floriography, More or Less

Camille T. Dungy
pp. 784-786
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0190
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Before the Fetus Proves Viable, a Stroll Creekside in the Sierras

Camille T. Dungy
p. 787
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0201
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After Birth

Camille T. Dungy
p. 788
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0141
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Carrion

Janice N. Harrington
pp. 789-791
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0152
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Osage Orange

Janice N. Harrington
pp. 792-793
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0164
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The Ruins of Our Village

Nwa Odike Ifemembi
pp. 794-797
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0175
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The Coon

Angelle Scott
p. 798
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0186
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Misericord

Phillip B. Williams
pp. 799-800
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0197
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To Forge the Gate, Its Keyhole, Its Pearl

Phillip B. Williams
p. 801
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0137
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Dizzied by Sweat-Reek and Getting-It-On, A Pastor

Phillip B. Williams
p. 802
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0148
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Pax Villa

Nadine Seide
pp. 803-809
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0160
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Notes from the 2010 Callaloo Conference

pp. 811-813
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0171
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My People

Elleni Centime Zeleke
pp. 819-828
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0193
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Chewing the Tchat in Ethi

Nelly Rosario
pp. 829-841
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0204
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Angels and Motherlands

Margo Natalie Crawford
pp. 842-846
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0144
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Callaloo Conference Reflection

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
pp. 847-852
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0155
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A New “Tizita”

Maaza Mengiste
pp. 853-856
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0166
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Travels to and from Ethiopia

Nadia Nurhussein
pp. 857-865
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0177
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Absorption

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
p. 866
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0188
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Bet Giyorgis

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
p. 867
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0199
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Axum

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
pp. 868-871
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0139
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On Double Consciousness

Emmanuel C. Eze
pp. 877-898
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0162
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Five Poems: The Gospel According to Toni Morrison

Stephanie Li
pp. 899-914
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0173
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Langston Hughes’s Poetry and the Metaphysics of Simplicity

Karl Henzy
pp. 915-927
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0184
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“Theah’s Life Anywheres Theah’s Booze and Jazz”: Home to Harlem and Gingertown in the Context of National Prohibition

Kathleen Drowne
pp. 928-942
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0195
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“Check With Yo’ Man First; Check With Yo’ Man”: Tyler Perry Appropriates Drag as a Tool to Re-Circulate Patriarchal Ideology

Timothy Lyle
pp. 943-958
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0135
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Skin Inc: Identity Repair Poems, and: Amnesiac, and: The Black Automaton, and: Quantum Spit (review)

Gregory Pardlo
pp. 959-964
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0158
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Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (review)

Keith D. Leonard
pp. 964-966
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0169
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Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture (review)

Emily J. Lordi
pp. 967-969
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0180
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At Home and Abroad: Historicizing Twentieth-Century Whiteness in Literature and Performance (review)

Nalda Báez Ferrer
pp. 969-972
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0191
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Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities (review)

Vanessa K. Valdés
pp. 972-975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0202
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Black Europe and the African Diaspora (review)

Mahriana Rofheart
pp. 975-977
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0142
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Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation (review)

Chandra D. Bhimull
pp. 977-980
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0153
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The Call to Addis Ababa: The Editor's Notes

Charles Henry Rowell
pp. 814-818
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0182
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Contributors

pp. 981-986
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2011.0146
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