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Did not relate to the poems but incredible writing. It was beautiful to read.
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I'll write a proper review of this later today. It is late. I'll just say, for the moment, just in case I forget that this is an excellent collection that works with both language and layout to create an interesting poetry collection that manages to convey the stories, about the modern black experience, particularly of black women.
It is political, as everything is political. Only people with relatively easy lives can pretend that they are untouched by politics.
But as I said more later today. When I've thought about it some more and had time to re-read my underlining and notes.
It is political, as everything is political. Only people with relatively easy lives can pretend that they are untouched by politics.
But as I said more later today. When I've thought about it some more and had time to re-read my underlining and notes.
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The Ultra-Black Fish
Two hundred metres down, the light stops.
Many deep-sea creatures alive at this level
of the ocean have developed the ability to create
light for themselves. This is known as bioluminescence.
Others, on the contrary, contribute to the darkness
by adding themselves to it. Ultra-black fish are
one example, & in 2020 sixteen varieties of these were
discovered captured. The level of pigment in their
skin was so high that it was found to absorb 99.956%
of the light that touched it. Karen, a marine biologist,
made the discovery came across them by accident.
Instead of hauling up the deep-sea crabs she had been
searching for, her net produced a fang-toothed fish that
wouldn't show up in a photograph. Held, later, in a tank
under two strobe lights, the fish became a living black hole,
with no discernable features beyond the opacity of its
silhouette. As though it had cut itself out of the image & left.
Scientists believe that the fish developed their invisibility
to aid them in escaping their predators. Another theory
suggests that the obscurity of ultra-black fish enables them
to more successfully catch their prey. It is likely that both
ideas are true. Commentatorson their discovery have also
speculated that the chemical structure of the pigment could
serve
the development of military & defence technologies.
Nothing was said, however, about how ultra-black fish find
& enter into relations with each other. Nonetheless, their
existence
alone is evidence that, invisible as they may be to others, they are by no means strangers to themselves. (p. 67-68)
Two hundred metres down, the light stops.
Many deep-sea creatures alive at this level
of the ocean have developed the ability to create
light for themselves. This is known as bioluminescence.
Others, on the contrary, contribute to the darkness
by adding themselves to it. Ultra-black fish are
one example, & in 2020 sixteen varieties of these were
skin was so high that it was found to absorb 99.956%
of the light that touched it. Karen, a marine biologist,
Instead of hauling up the deep-sea crabs she had been
searching for, her net produced a fang-toothed fish that
wouldn't show up in a photograph. Held, later, in a tank
under two strobe lights, the fish became a living black hole,
with no discernable features beyond the opacity of its
silhouette. As though it had cut itself out of the image & left.
Scientists believe that the fish developed their invisibility
to aid them in escaping their predators. Another theory
suggests that the obscurity of ultra-black fish enables them
to more successfully catch their prey. It is likely that both
ideas are true. Commentators
speculated that the chemical structure of the pigment could
serve
the development of military & defence technologies.
Nothing was said, however, about how ultra-black fish find
& enter into relations with each other. Nonetheless, their
existence
alone is evidence that, invisible as they may be to others, they are by no means strangers to themselves. (p. 67-68)