Awaiting

by Charisse Weston

Part autobiography, part play, part fictive dream as long poem, AWAITING begins by detaching phrases and motifs from two seemingly disparate plays (Lorraine Hansberry's What Use are Flowers? and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ) and entangling them into centos or poetic remixes. Through the incorporation of these entanglements, original poetry, and a surreal landscape, what develops is a new work blurring the sightlines of narrative space by way of the spiral, by way of the fragment and the self-reflective slip of the fold into and out of itself. Poetry. Drama. Literary Nonfiction. Art. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies.

80 pages, Paperback

Published March 15, 2023