Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa; THE CARIBBEAN AND JAMAICA; This Jamaican Family: The Word, and Dreams; An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Jamaica (June 2008); "But What Kind of Nonsense Is That?" Callaloo and Diaspora; Toward a Queer Prayer; The Bloodpeople in the Language; Again, a Book of Dreams (Reflections on Our Caribbean); Jamaican, Octopus; FIVE WRITERS, NO PRECIOUSNESS, AND A NOT-POEM; Andrew Salkey's Escape to an Autumn Pavement: An Introduction; The Four of Them; Against Preciousness; Interview with the Not-Poem
THE BODY AND ITS CONFLICTSMeditation (on "Barebacking"); Regarding Thoughts of (_______); Without a Face; FROM ENGLAND: DISSENT, JOY, AND THE PAST THAT IS NEVER PAST; An Ugly Lesson in Repression at Cambridge University; Toward Joy and Writing: Snow in London, January 6, 2010; The Bloodpeople Redux: Just a Few Short Notes on Memory; Endnotes; Acknowledgments; About Akashic Books