As I read Wallace Thurman’s “Cordelia the Crude,” the first short story in FIRE!!, I became interested in the relationship the story established between what is physical and what is “crude.” I traced the appearance of the word “physical” and images of physicality in order to examine the story’s tone with regard to physicality. I…
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Death Bed Identity
Waring Cuney, one of the contributors of poetry to the October-31st-published issue of FIRE!!, speaks in “The Death Bed” of a black man’s thoughts as his life is coming to a close, upon the bed the title deems his death bed. Upon their deathbeds, it is common for individuals to reflect upon their identities, molded…