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The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise. In these prose poems, Gumbs channels the voices of her ancestors, including whales, coral, and oceanic bacteria, to tell stories of diaspora, indigeneity, migration, blackness, genius, mothering, grief, and harm. Tracing the origins of colonialism, genocide, and slavery as they converge in Black feminist practice, Gumbs explores the potential for the poetic and narrative undoing of the knowledge that underpins the concept of Western humanity. Throughout, she reminds us that dominant modes of being human and the oppression those modes create can be challenged, and that it is possible to make ourselves and our planet anew.

An exhilarating biography of the iconic poet, essayist and activist Audre Lorde <BR>Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for Audre's fierce love, which is the same love that birthed the volcanoes and split the continents, to reach you, wherever you are.<BR><BR>Audre Lorde was a survivor: of childhood disability injustice, of her best friend's suicide, of the atomic age. She was a college activist against nuclear arms. A mother who knew poetry could help her children survive a racist world. And, ultimately, a cancer survivor, who understood the war going on within her cells was connected to the struggle against oppression taking place all around her.<BR><BR>This stunning new account of Lorde's life and work illuminates how, for Lorde, survival was not simply about getting through, or about resilience. It was about how to live on, and with, a planet in transformation. Lorde's commitment to justice was intimately connected to her deep engagement with the natural world; with the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. For Lorde, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be on earth, and how to live fully as a Black feminist lesbian warrior poet.<BR><BR>In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde's manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Audre Lorde. Her life and work swell to become a cosmic force, showing us the grand possibility of life together on earth.<BR>

Das Gewässer, in dem das Ertrinken droht, ist der Atlantik, über den Millionen versklavter Afrikaner*innen nach Nordamerika verschleppt wurden. Und es ist das Erbe dieser kollektiven Erfahrung.Alexis Pauline Gumbs spricht von denjenigen, die ertranken - buchstäblich und metaphorisch -, denjenigen, die sagten 'I can't breathe', und denjenigen, die trotz allem weiteratmeten. Auch heute weiteratmen, nichtertrinken.Sie lädt dazu ein, eine neue Art des Atmens zu erlernen. Als Mentor*innen stellt sie uns Wale, Delfine, Robben, Walrosse und Seekühe vor. Denn wer könnte mehr über das Nichtertrinken wissen? In neunzehn Lektionen verwebt Alexis Pauline Gumbs auf poetische Weise naturwissenschaftliche Beobachtungen mit Ansätzen und Erkenntnissen des Black Feminism.Sie fragt sich, wie die Echoortung unser Verständnis von visionärem Handeln beeinflussen kann, und betrachtet die Methoden, mit denen sich Menschen und Meeressäuger zunehmend bedrohlichen Umständen anpassen - oder anpassen könnten.Leiten lässt sich Gumbs von der Liebe und der Bewunderung für unsere aquatischen Verwandten, die es ihr erlauben, ihnen auf Augenhöhe zu begegnen und von ihnen zu lernen.