Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
PBS Choice Winter 2022 Marian Christie Acoustic shadows—sound suppressed in such

Acoustic shadows—sound suppressed in such a way that even General Grant was deceived by one at the Battle of Iuka in the American Civil War—complicate the lives of many figures appearing in these poems

The narrative in Isabel Palmer’s Atmospherics begins with seeing her only son go to war in Afghanistan soon after his 21st birthday in 2011 and ends with his final

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at age sixty-six

reflecting on it and dreaming about it

Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa<br><b>PBS Choice Winter 2022</b> Marian Christie Acoustic shadows—sound suppressed in suchCane, Corn & Gully is a genealogical and autobiographical collection which unites dance and poetry to observe, question and ruminate on what it means to adopt, perform, and pass down the notion of black West Indian femininity. Using labanotation and rhythm to analyse movement from Caribbean dances to movements carried out in everyday rituals, Kinshasa uses these motifs as a form of cartography for the poems. Cane, Corn & Gully interrogates survival,