{"title":"Black Butterfly","authors":"Gabriel Ratcliffe","doi":"10.1353/afa.2022.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"{ } It’s a butterfly trapped in the library The window’s face beaten by butterfly wings Black wing clipped on right-hand side Black wing ripped by unnamed culprit Black Butterfly equipped with innocence Nobody there helped that butterfly But my feelings linked with Butterfly Black Butterfly caged by unasked fate I have Black Butterfly cupped in my gentle palms And my palms beaten by Black Butterfly’s wings Presumed it couldn’t fly but it busted straight out my hands","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0006","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
{ } It’s a butterfly trapped in the library The window’s face beaten by butterfly wings Black wing clipped on right-hand side Black wing ripped by unnamed culprit Black Butterfly equipped with innocence Nobody there helped that butterfly But my feelings linked with Butterfly Black Butterfly caged by unasked fate I have Black Butterfly cupped in my gentle palms And my palms beaten by Black Butterfly’s wings Presumed it couldn’t fly but it busted straight out my hands
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As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.