I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love by Mahogany L. Browne

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I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love by Mahogany L. BrowneMahogany L. Brownes evocative book length poem explores the impacts of the prison system on both the incarcerated and the loved ones left behind. I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love is an expansive poetic meditation on who we think is bound by incarceration. The answer: all of us. Weaving personal narrative, case studies, and inventive form, Browne invokes the grief, pain, and resilience in the violent wake of the prison system. This poem

’ Navigating sexuality

They witness the horrors of forced conformity

—Shira Erlichman

from Antigone and Houdini to Huitzilopochtli and Jesus

gummy candy

and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic

the tender protest of the stars

her medication for Bipolar Disorder

in which verbally realized sensations deliver reality whole

violence and sensuality

and conjure people and places that resonate after they are gone

perhaps especially