So this is a drawing that I did after a performance.
So I did some performance art when I was in art school.
And this one was me walking down the street in Atlanta
in that sort of outfit with my friend who
was dragging a guitar and had an amp on her back with a remix
of a poem that I did.
And I was screaming basically, going up and down the street
screaming.
And the idea came from "Glass, Irony, and God" by Anne Carson.
She has an essay in it that mentions
how women were prevented from showing their grief in public
in ancient Greece because they were protesting
their sons being killed in war.
And they did it so much and so loudly
that it was made illegal for women to gather and make
noise in public.
So that's what that drawing came from
and partially where some of these poems came from.
So I'll just read a little bit from Fearful Beloved.