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For my final project in @EmersonCollege #LI204 with @Ambrose_Emerson, I developed a fan site about Assotto Saint to share with Quakers in the hopes that we can keep Saint's works alive by reading and discussing it.
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I'm hoping that some of my Friends will check out the website and comment on one of my tweets about it. This is part of what I'm graded on - my ability to engage my target audience with my artifact.
Here is the website I created: https://greysonacquaviva.wixsite.com/assotto-saint
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Here is the website I created: https://greysonacquaviva.wixsite.com/assotto-saint
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Quaker Friends, will you help me by replying to one of these tweets about my Assotto Saint website? @fmcquakers @NYCQuakers @FCNL @fgcQuaker @PendleHillQuake @FWCCWorldOffice @betsybramon
https://greysonacquaviva.wixsite.com/assotto-saint
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https://greysonacquaviva.wixsite.com/assotto-saint
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night
after night
a mother bends over
her son's bones sores scales
writing on his bed
fit for a king
satin sheets sweat secrets
she closes
his blurry eyes
rolls rosary beads
faithful
in the morning
he'll wake up
to see her
smile
Assotto Saint - Mater Dolorosa
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after night
a mother bends over
her son's bones sores scales
writing on his bed
fit for a king
satin sheets sweat secrets
she closes
his blurry eyes
rolls rosary beads
faithful
in the morning
he'll wake up
to see her
smile
Assotto Saint - Mater Dolorosa
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father my father
laius liar liable
doomed by the oracle of blood
where the soul burns
never a daily bread sacrifice
fuel of lowest temptations
ash of forgiveness smiles revelations
still too hot
father my father
laius liar liable
damned by thy name
Assotto Saint-Pater Noster
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laius liar liable
doomed by the oracle of blood
where the soul burns
never a daily bread sacrifice
fuel of lowest temptations
ash of forgiveness smiles revelations
still too hot
father my father
laius liar liable
damned by thy name
Assotto Saint-Pater Noster
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early on easter sunday
you call
to offer the friend some faith
you hope
when the grandmother answers
you dread
ricky's no longer with us
you hear
what in god's name does that mean
you ask
Early on Easter Sunday
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you call
to offer the friend some faith
you hope
when the grandmother answers
you dread
ricky's no longer with us
you hear
what in god's name does that mean
you ask
Early on Easter Sunday
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Check out the Assotto Saint Papers at the @nypl:
Sc MG 556, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, http://archives.nypl.org/scm/22248
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Sc MG 556, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, http://archives.nypl.org/scm/22248
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You can watch a video of Steve Williams interviewing Assotto Saint about the book The Road Before Us, a collection of the works of 100 Gay Black Poets https://vimeo.com/365533246
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Assotto Saint was also in a band called Xotika. You can listed to his song "Forever Gay" on the album Feeding the Flame: Songs by Men to End AIDS (1990).
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