BURY MY CLOTHES, OR: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. ALOE THE BLACK
Book ID/图书代码： 11650012B56512
English Summary/英文概要： Bury My Clothes is a meditation on violence. It is a meditation on race. It is a meditation on the places at which they intersect, politically, culturally and personally. As an idea, the collection of poems hoped to explore the history of violence in the development of Trinidad and Tobago’s steel pan culture and parallel it to the history of violence in the development of America’s hip-hop culture. Amongst oppressed communities of color, it is about survival. It is about establishing personhood in the world, where everything around suggests non-personhood. And as such, it establishes legacy in a culture and history of non-ownership, through the ownership of idea and ideal.
The all-time great calypsonian, The Growling Tiger sang “When ah dead, bury meh clothes / ah doh want no sweet man to wear meh clothes.” He wanted what made him new and fresh and a man whose personhood was established to go with him when he died. It was all he owned, all he would ever own. The refrain is a favorite rhythm in the gayelle, for the traditional stickfights that are part of the slave rebellion history in Trinidad and Tobago. It is a song of lament and conjure. It undulates the shoulders and drives the feet into the dirt. It lifts the body up and cracks the stick. It draws the blood. It buries the man, a man, a hero on his own terms.
The poems in this powerful collection do that plus offer a prayer, a signpost for a new more total way to exist, even as they acknowledge “I am a black poet / plain and simple. I don’t know if I was black before I was a poet/ but I come from a people who have ways/ of telling such things.” The poems are about gathering again, from wherever they might come, all those people.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《埋葬我的衣服》是一本对暴力、种族以及种族间在政治上、文化上以及个人生活上相互交织的反思。处于某种想法，这本诗集期望在特立尼达岛以及多巴哥岛“钢锅文化”发展、以及以及美洲嘻哈文化发展之际探讨暴力历史。对于受压抑的有色人种而言，这是一本关于生存的书，一本关于在一个一切皆提倡非个性的世界建立个性的作品。于此，本书利用获取所有权的想法和理想建立失去拥有权的文化和历史的遗产。
有史以来最伟大的卡吕普索歌曲《咆哮的老虎》唱到“在我死去时，请埋葬我的衣服，我想不会有哪个甜蜜的人要穿上我的衣服”。他渴望能让他重生的东西，期望在死去之时能够拥有个性的自我。这就是他所拥有以及一直以来持有的夙愿。副歌部分是gayelle中最受人喜爱的节奏，因为所有传统棍棒打斗中都是特立尼达岛以及多巴哥岛奴隶反抗历史中不可缺少的一部分。这是一首充满悲伤和召唤的歌曲。它让我们肩膀起伏波动，驱使我们的脚踏入泥土；它让身体上升，让棍棒断裂；它画出了鲜血；它埋葬了人类，一个人、一个坚持自我的英雄。
这本充满力量的诗集为一种更加关乎生存的全新方式增添了一种祈祷方式、一种指示，就如他们公认的“我是一个黑人诗人，简简单单。我不知道我在成为诗人之前是否是一个黑人，但是我我来自那样一群能够告知实情的人群。”这些诗歌是关于如何再次聚集那些黑人。（XMM）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Roger Bonair-Agard两次获得全国诗歌大满贯冠军，是《污点Tarnish》、《化妆舞会Masquerade》以及《水沟GULLY》的作者。他 曾三次登上HBO电台节目 Def Poetry Jam，也是纽约 响亮艺术项目（LouderARTS Project）的艺术总监和合作伙伴之一。 Roger Bonair-Agard is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and author of Tarnish, Masquerade and GULLY. He has appeared three times on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and co-founder and Artistic Director of the LouderARTS Project in New York.
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