Rammellezzee epigraph in full:
“What I do is the burner. An aerodynamic aeronautical system of the letter flying on a rolling page in a wind tunnel known as the transit system. And that’s all that happens. A letter moves backwards with its own wings, it gained the wheels off the bottom of the train. And the page became a car with a year number on it. And the gallery was rollin’.”
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/rammellzee-legacy
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Lines referenced in the dedication and final poem title can be found in Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel No 2.”
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
you fixed yourself, you said, “Well never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music.”
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James Brown song Referenced in “How To Be Drawn To Trouble”:
http://youtu.be/GwbzpU9SRN4
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Lines referenced in “As Traffic” can be found after Andre 3000’s intro
Shorter “International Players Anthem (remix)” with no video:
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Inspiration for “Wigphrastic”
Ellen Gallagher. DeLuxe. 2004–05.
Klymaxx – “The Men All Pause”
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Inspiration for “Gentle Measures”
http://jacobabbott.com/NS/gentle.html
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Inspiration for “A Concept of Survival”
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Einstein puzzle inspiration for “Who Are The Tribes” graph.
Albert Einstein’s “Who Owns the Fish?” Logic Puzzle
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Ghost story referenced in “Black Confederate Ghost Story.”
Song referenced in “Black Confederate Ghost Story.”
“Good Ol Rebel” http://www.civilwarhome.com/pooroldrebel.htm
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Inspiration for the refrain in “The Carpenter Ant”
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Wanda Coleman poem (“Sonnet 88,” from Mercurochrome, 2001 Black Sparrow Press) featuring lines referenced in “American Sonnet for Wanda C”:
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Title reference for “The Rose Has Teeth”
http://youtu.be/dYWiGNCWDLw
Selected songs referenced in”The Rose Has Teeth”:
“Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child” by Jimmy Scott
“Mouhamadou Bamba” by Orchestra Baobab
“California Dreamin” by Jose Feliciano
“California Dreamin” by George Benson
“Autumn Leaves” by Miles Davis
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Image inspiration for “Antebellum House Party”
Dean Hall Plantation, “1827, Coffee After Dinner” For Found Anew: New Writing Inspired by the South Caroliniana Library Digital Collections http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/bcp/id/27/rec/8
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Inspiration for “Some Maps To Indicate Pittsburgh”
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“How to Draw a Perfect Circle”
“How to Draw a Perfect Circle”
“How To Draw a Perfect Circle”
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Inspiration for “New Jersey Poem” reference to a chicken sculpture.
Willie Cole: “Malcolm’s Chickens I”
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Photography of Charles Teenie Harris: http://teenie.cmoa.org/interactive/index.html#theme03