the ferguson report: an erasure by Nicole Sealey

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the ferguson report: an erasure by Nicole SealeyA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department's investigation of the Ferguson Police Department In August 2014, Michael Browna young, unarmed Black manwas shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased policing and court

as well as the tensions of complicity and resistance inherent to life as a queer postcolonial subject in America

The multiple voices swirl like a collision of hot and cold fronts

rooted in unity and wholeness

queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and fill the white spaces with her hard-won wisdom and love

The Missouri Review’s Poem-of-the-Week

love of literature

perhaps by his own hand

” Our founders opened a road

and mental illness as her childhood abuse resurfaces in the light of “this honeyed life

where he lived with other writers and artists such as Carson McCullers

at every stage of life

vital book of verse