Heed the hollow: poems

Introduction / by Chris Abani --

Power bottom --

I. Bop : Black queer southern studies --

OnTybee Island --

Deep root --

Malcolm Tariq's Black bottom --

Woman hangs a cotton boll wreath on her door --

Niggerhead --

Index to the American slave --

Slave play --

Self-portrait as George Washington's teeth --

Road to Chocolate Plantation --

II. On Stone Mountain --

Sugar --

Niggerhead --

Callie Barr's Black bottom --

Grandma's Black bottom --

Body politic --

Drapetomania --

1 yearning --

Nocturne : without sanctuary --

Malcolm Tariq's Black bottom --

Self-portrait as an unmarked grave --

On Sullivan's Island --

III. Fucking [with] Ralph Ellison --

Fucking : A : Proclamation --

Heed the Hollow --

Malcolm Tariqu's Black bottom --

Common feast --

Learning to bottom --

Addendum --

Cento in which the narrative precedes the lyric --

IV. Tabby --

Bottom power --

Notes --

Acknowledgments.