The fact that love is possible, teaches me everything about what love even is. This has been you don't even understand the way Im in my chest. Oh my goodness, okay. So much awe, so much love, Im like I just have to be with all the Black feminists, the way I can be with them is through the archival research, if the way I can be with them is through reading their poems over and over again, whatever that is, that's what I do. I love that for us. Like three pieces of art facing each other at different angles but framing something with the ways that they are positioned. But I can listen to like, you know, what are the new r&b girlies they do just enough to not have me overwhelmed, but not too much, not too much. That was, that was delightful to me. Alexis Pauline Gumbs vs. Chasing Awe April 25, 2023 00:00 00:00 On this week's episode, Brittany and Ajanae sit down with Alexis Pauline Gumbs; during this interview, they discuss the gift of literary inheritance, unlearning the colonial lens, and allowing curiosity and awe to guide one's research practice. Like it has been such a treasure. Alexis Pauline Gumbs has a beautiful way of allowing words to wash together, rhythmically like the ocean, or rapidly like a river. Can y'all hear the train? And what are the most surprising things I've learned about myself? [Recites poem]. To best understand your work. Search the history of over 806 billion May you live in the mouth of the river, meeting place of the tides, may all blessings flow through you., I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. It feels like where I go hang out with Audre, and Im like, okay, no, I have to go. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. [9] Because she does not work at a university, she has participated in conversations about how intellectual work can be more path breaking and widely accessible outside of the academy. And that is one of my favorite albums. Like Audre Lorde, Gumbs writes for the complexity of her vision." Okay (laughs). Fannie Lou Hamer has my heart. $j("#generalRegPrompt").hide(); }); It's not something that is to, you know, be distilled into a set of facts, or even a set of approaches. Thomasi McDonald, News & Observer, "Spill is poetry that invites the reader to imagine these poems weren't written- they was lived, they were felt, and in some deep sense, re-membered. I think that one of the things that was like surprising and delightful to me that I learned about Audre Lorde in this process was that she just loved science fiction so much. I mean, I can just read any poem in The Black Unicorn, and it'll it will be like a question for my life on that day, an urgent question for my emotional, spiritual, physical life that is in there. I feel like she really absolved me of that feeling. I decided I wanted to write every day with phrases from these three writersHortense Spillers, M. Jacqui Alexander and Sylvia Wynter. You can contribute this audio pronunciation of Alexis Pauline Gumbs to HowToPronounce dictionary. It may be through me, but it's not about me. Alexis Pauline Gumbs Prophecy in the Present Tense 145 city council of Albany, New York and has had a major impact on police violence in her community. And when it's every day, it means that all the different things that are coming up for me in my life during every single day, different parts of this cycle, different seasons of the year, different parts of my emotional journey, different other things that happen in my life. 4.53 out of 5 stars-1,223 ratings. Because it has some of my favorite some of our favorite love songs. . I mean, it's fine. For me, publishing these three books that engage theorists whose recognition is pretty strictly limited to academiathough Jacqui is going way beyond that in her work in Tobagospeaks way beyond those institutions. I get the ocean, I get the Audre, I get the dates. What does it mean that I feel this way? Breath After is a sound design piece created by Sangodare in collaboration with Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs's graduate seminar M Archive: Black Feminism After the End of the World using audio from a series of sound circles created with the scholars/students and inspiration drawn from their contributions to the M Archive Anthology called BREATHING THROUGH THE END OF THE . They are creating a frame for you, the reader, the community, whoever stands facing this work so they can be the place where all this intersects. And she was the first Black woman to have a solo show at the Whitney and she she did paintings about everything. May you taste the fresh and the saltwater of yourself and know what only you can know. Okay, that's my breath. 2. And it's phenomenal to me that I could be loved by people who did not overlap with me in life. If you are interested in cultivating a sustainable and sacred daily practice sign up for our 10-day self guided Stardust and Salt process. When I start in everyday practice, I just know that I need to be in that practice. She honors the lives and creative works of Black feminist geniuses as sacred texts for all people. Harmony Holiday by Farid Matuk, Harmony Holiday by Farid Matuk, Harmony Holiday All of the different markers allow us the opportunity to see that there is distance between what we recognize and what we are becoming, which is unrecognizable. It's such a huge act of love that I especially feel from Black women poets, and writers who are like, this is for you who aren't even here yet. That's what makes them able to engage faster than I could even have the thought. Reading Gumbss books feels like reading an archive that will someday, who knows maybe even someday soon, usher in an era of radical transformation." . Though, I'm not going to disclaim that. In 2020, she was awarded the National Humanities Center Fellowship for her book-in-progress, The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: A Cosmic Biography. Inserting hindsight about the end of the worldwhile the end of the world is still happeningdoes offer meaning to actions that we may think of as meaningless. And we are your co-hosts of VS, the podcast where poets confront the ideas that move them. Please note that Crafts default cookies do not collect any personal or sensitive information. Um, I am going to thank Sophia Snowe. I have never read a poetry book that made me cry, but APGs words hit me deep. Breath After. One way of remembering how to breathe. Right, like she has these like calcified memories of hurt and betrayal that she held on to. Yes! Well, this is what may end up being the epigraph to the whole book. And, and I trust that so it's like, you know, its like, well, marine mammals like you know, girl, you aint no marine biologists like what? And I think that makes me, it's just very reminiscent of your work for me to be able to see myself where I previously could not. That's all. So like, you know, I know all there is to know that Audre Lorde has had to teach me. There's all sorts of fields of science I never even heard of, but in order to really talk about Audre Lorde's work, and also the scope of how she understood her own cosmic existence, I have to learn so much more. Nothing foundtry broadening your search. Looking at Blue Asteroid. I think that there will always be a question and an assignment for me in Audre Lordes poetry. All Rights Reserved. And I honestly didn't know because all roads lead back to Audre Lorde, I didn't know that she was like that, you know, she was like, what? But it does connect me to the legacy of those literary workers whose brave experiments have made my work and life possible. Shouldnt it be a given? And I know that when your work transforms form you cant expect recognition. Ah, I love it. We can just keep making the world unbreathable. Grounded in ork-like references to Sylvia Wynters oeuvre, Dub simultaneously contracts and expands to create a new form of proprioception, which allows us as a species, phantomed by the corrosive and lacerating actions of history, to locate ourselves in relation to other species, as well as within the time-space continuum of the yet to be, the now and the past. Part prayer, oration, exhortation, commentary and story, Dub amplifies ancestral voices to become mythopoesis in the making. M. NourbeSe Philip, author of Zong! I don't think I've ever read a thing that Jesmyn has written that I have not loved. Fannie Lou Hamer definitely be one. And what that will mean to different people at different times. When I was wee young lad. And I feel like Audre Lordes, Audre Lorde had this relationship to stones, but she, you know, she has this place where she says, Those stones in my heart are you. It's not about, it's not about me. I tried to pull myself together real quick. . Its not a trilogy because its not a plot-based narrative that continues to develop through the books. I just rewatched Moonlight and Pariah on a plane. Annually, BOMB serves 1.5 million online readers44% of whom are under 30 years of age. Its over for these hoes. So it's kind of like, okay, I have this familiar thing that I listen to all the time. So I love that sentiment. {{app.userTrophy[app.userTrophyNo].hints}}. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. Yes, yes. Yeah, that's also a part of what the function of my poetry is in my life, and my process, and practice, and my need for Audrey Lloyd as a, as a teacher to guide is about that too. As an educator, Alexis Pauline Gumbs walks in the legacy of black lady school teachers in post-slavery communities who offered sacred educational space to the intergenerational newly free in exchange for the random necessities of life. APG Luckily for me, academia eats poison. And I think that it's not to say that then okay, well, I go to like a place in my brain where there has to be some research I can do about this, though, that has been a historical theme of mine. How can I be with these beings? Alexis Pauline Gumbs was the first person to dig through the archives of several radical black feminist mothers including June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and Toni Cade Bambara while writing her dissertation We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism, a 500-page work. Lara Mimosa Montes, Poetry Project Review, "Gumbss poetry takes up the detritus of the everyday that surrounds theory the affective social and political worlds in which black feminist theorists write and bends it, splits it, like a prism breaking a beam of light into a rainbow." I'm curious about the role the study of your own emotions play in how you approach your research. And I love that she was just like, in her kitchen, like polishing stones she picked up on the ground. Yeah, yeah. I'm really reflecting. You have earned {{app.voicePoint}} points. I have been reading this in fits and spurts because it's so deep. APG The fact that we are always crossing, even though so much of the structure of our lives is designed to convince us that we are in a stable situation and to sacrifice everything and everyone for that fictional stability. The popping, start-stopping poetry of Dub is a tour through a history of colonialism, semi-autobiographical storytelling and suggested futures. // Fiction 9 Binyavanga Wainaina, Introduced by Achal Prabhala DNA and Our Twenty-First-Century Ancestors // Essay 28 Duana Fullwiley Two Poems 39 Kyoko Uchida The Millions // Essay 44 Deborah Taffa Two Poems 57 Diamond Forde Meditations on Lines // poetry 59 I think the thing that I admire most about elders is getting to the space where you say exactly what you're thinking. I know the pace of it. . And while I'm focused on that groove and pace, then I'm like, Oh, these are things that I'm thinking this is what's coming up for me. Because our ancestors navigated so intimately through change, Gumbs sets out to prove, so can we. [9][10] Her writing and activism is influenced by the work of her grandmother Lydia Gumbs who designed the flag of Anguilla during the countrys 1967 revolution. If I had any kind of patience, maybe I would have tried to release them all at once. Not only because she gave me that piece of advice, but because she does that in her work and life. As tends to be the case with the books that Gumbs summons, the timing of Dub is prescient. Can you talk about the contradictions between what academic study can allow, and what it prevents? It's such a sacred text to me. I can't listen to hymns when I'm writing, nothing will get done. Zaina Alsous, Bitch, "This book is a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. So I have this kind of eternal gratitude. All these things. So would you like to be an optimist or a pessimist today? They're just in it. I mean, plantain, rice, and peas. By exploring how Black feminist theory is already after the end of the world, Gumbs reinscribes the possibilities and potentials of scholarship while demonstrating the impossibility of demarcating the lines between art, science, spirit, scholarship, and politics. All Rights Reserved. That look like a Bible, you know, the old mothers? And one of the reasons that its terrifying. Welcome, y'all. And she allowed her ancestors to come through when she sang. My little heart is tender. It's making me wonder, really quick, before we move to our last question I was trying not to ask, but Im like I must (laughs). Oh, Audre Lorde, as every day. I think my most honest answer is Jesmyn Ward. Are you a foodie? I love it. Like that does not register for me. But if I have other people who I know are also writing so that's helpful, and if not that, then shifting my place or position. Fred Hampton-Fred Hampton on Revolution And Racism 2019 Duke University Press. After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (review)", "Dub: Finding Ceremony , by Alexis Pauline Gumbs", "Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (review)", "Response to Alexis Pauline Gumbs' Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals", "Review of Undrowned: Black feminist lessons from marine mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs", "Deep dives, deeper breaths: A review of "Undrowned Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals" | SGD Institute", "How to Understand Mother as a Verb This Mothers Day and Always", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexis_Pauline_Gumbs&oldid=1151087102, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, The first book in her trilogy and is a collection of poetry that engages in consistent dialogue with Hortense Spillers anthology titled, Gumbs second book in her trilogy centers on concepts of black life and black metaphysics from a feminist perspective and is in conversation with. Dionne Brand- History as Imagination: Black Dreaming as Liberation | Project Myopia. Please, we cant take it. I feel like in this book I wrote a lot of strangeness, a lot of queer Black possibility, a lot of out-of-this-worldness, but I think that everyone who reads it will find it all familiar at the same time. Locked. It's just, there's so much to learn. APGI love that. Event.observe(window, 'load', function() { you put it down. We can even check in on social media in places that we didnt go. And I'm so like, wanting to embrace the universe. And that is what I love about a matriarchy because if an elder dont do nothing else, they teach you how to center yourself and I love that. I don't think, I think I had to surrender to the process that was Undrowned before I would really be able to write about Audre Lorde in the way that I spiritually believe that she would want me to write about her. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. Mentors, colleagues, even marketing professionals struggle to categorize my work. For example, the university taught them through its selective genocide. And I think that poetry is part of what allows me to slow those down. And I want to read all of them to be clear. Stealing the meaning back, as you say, is the opportunity to say that who and where and how we are is meaningful, even if it is on a scale that is beyond our like buttons and our lifetimes. In other words, this book happened in somebody's body, a body committed to Black Feminist ways of knowing and feeling in the world. By embracing and applying these through the form of the parable, Spill speaks to the radical, spiritual power that belongs to those 'black women who made and broke narrative.'" Hmm, that's such a great question. Even once we reach each other, the crossing isnt over. So we'll, we'll start, we'll open with what is moving you today? You know what, youre right. I love I love your framing of that. [5], Gumbs was the Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts in the Department of Theater Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota (20172019). I was like, this is, you know, it was something that, it was something that held me in such an important way. So for folks who are just getting to find out Alma Thomas, wow, okay, Alma Thomas is this amazing painter. Her new novel, Sketchtasy, will be out in October. And so instructive, and so important. Definitely my favorite cousin. Continue reading. It's not like, oh, it has to be like, a diamond or ruby, like literally any rock you pick up can shine. Continue with Recommended Cookies, Please She is author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and the Founder and Director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, an educational program based in Durham, North Carolina. . And, you know, when I was 14 and 15, then I started using Audre Lorde epigraphs to all my English papers. What if we just cited one Black woman 253 pages in a row? [4], Gumbs holds a PhD in English, African and African-American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University. But in any, any, any form of creativity. So yeah, I love, I love hearing that. Lecture Notes: Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Like, that's what makes them effective. But I don't enjoy so much that I have to like, stop what I'm doing and sing along with them. It's yes, she definitely had a grand idea of herself, which I'm here for, and I feel like was absolutely appropriate. Because I do think there's a way in which you like, Okay, what I don't want to keep writing the same poem over and over and over again, right? Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Dub: Finding Ceremony, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines. img.scaleToMaxWidth(385); I mean, I don't know what I've even learned about myself that hasn't been assisted by the example, and the work of Audre Lorde. Um, I know you mentioned in earlier correspondence that you've been researching, and archiving, and writing about, and thinking about Audre Lorde since you were like a teenager, right? Like a dub riddim, Gumbs iterates on the question of names and pronouns, changing each line slightly in the movement from non-human interstices ("we let the whales name us") to self-articulation ("we found new names") (205). I listen to Tiny Desk, I love Tiny Desk, but I usually listen to ones that I enjoy the music to. If I want to be sad, If I want to be sad, I can be sad. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive, xi . The church mothers? M Archive - Alexis Pauline Gumbs 2018 Engaging with the work of M. Jacqui Alexander and Black feminist thought more generally, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive is a series of prose poems that speculatively documents the survival of Black people following a worldwide cataclysm while examining the possibilities of being that exceed the human. I believe that our movements, which have invested and sacrificed a lot to be included in academic institutions, can evolve past the colonization, classification and co-optation that allow those institutions to persist. And I think she felt that way about community. [6][7] She is the dramaturge for "dat Black Mermaid Man Lady", a performance by Sharon Bridgforth. Just like to fully receive it, and then to do this, recite her poem Call, which is one of my favorite poems ever. Thats for Alma Thomas and thats for yall. 5 Stars aren't enough for this sacred text but it's all we got so . web pages The information they store is not sent to Pixel & Tonic or any 3rd parties. My process is, I mean, I think that maybe this is my kinship with Audre Lorde, is that my process is for me. Entdecke Unertrunken | Alexis Pauline Gumbs | Buch | Deutsch | 2022 | AKI Verlag in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of Gumbs's acclaimed visionary fiction short story Evidence, M Archive is told from the perspective of a future researcher who uncovers evidence of the conditions of late capitalism, antiblackness, and environmental crisis while examining possibilities of being that exceed the human. . I don't have to be shy to be sacred about my time. And it doesn't matter. I have been writing how perfect. This page was last edited on 21 April 2023, at 20:31. I feel like it was looking at recordings of Fred Hampton. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Im disloyal to form. I'm crying so much, will I actually drown? . So there are layers there. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a writer who politicizes the archivenot the rarefied commodity within gated institutions, but the daily practice of documenting, inspiring, and engaging with Black feminist resistance. She is such an important mentor and example for me, and as I was writing M Archive I sat with phrases from Pedagogies of Crossing as daily prompts. . Top 5 easily. You cant have us participating in communal stuff, listen. I love your use of the term triptych here, instead of trilogy, which implies that the books are meant to be seen all at once, alongside one another, almost like visual art. You know, the changed relationship to myself, and to the violence that I experienced, and the colonial violence of my whole education, but also physical and sexual violence that I survived in college was all there. For me, it depends. . Both wrenching and playful, it offers instructions (two sets of them), warnings, and its central bid to listen to the undrowned. Susan McCabe, Los Angeles Review of Books. And where you've lost any need for like that pretense. And it's this place of wonder. I definitely don't have control over that. But this long, long relationship with research on the life and work and Andre Lorde, which to be so immersed in and never get exhausted or tired but to only continue to have more wonder like even just listening to the amount of love in her voice and on her face and seeing the amount of love on her face as she talked about it, to her talking about this daily writing process of being like for I forget how many days she said but for I'm just going to wake up and sit with the work of one artist every day as a part of a ritual and then write. showBlogFormLink.click(); Whoever said you were from another planet was right, my mentor M. Jacqui Alexander told me, laughing on the phone after reading a manuscript I sent her inspired by her own body of work. Alexiss capacity for curiosity was like, so inspiring and so stunning, I think is really easy for me to sometimes feel like okay, like whew, you can move on from this or you know, all there is to know about this.