Cyrus Cassells
Biographic Data
| ID | 1065172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cyrus Cassells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cyrus |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassells |
| SIGNATURE | CASSELLS C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Soul Make a Path Through Shouting
Praise Song
The Bottle Tree
The Bottle Tree Cyrus Cassells (bio) Look, in lieu of shade-granting leaves, here is cobalt, green, and lion-colored glass to quell ghosts of feet-don’t-fail-me-now, ghosts of if-you’re-black-stay-back, specters of inglorious slaving ships and wolfish phantoms: Brother, passerby, cast an eye, for Deacon Killian’s austere lowcountry branches are adorned with sun-washed empties: (Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, Chardonnay, Manischewitz . . .), to alert M…
Caesars and Dreamers
Caesars and Dreamers Cyrus Cassells (bio) The pharaohs of rice and indigo, the conniving Caesars of cotton, what were we to them? Profitable: able bodies from Barbados and the Windward Coast, the Rice Coast, our souls ramshackle, less than a rooster’s or a rock’s. And yet, in painstaking fields, in joyous praise houses, our tenacious “Go Down, Moses,” our stirring, rallying “In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea . . . “ might…
Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets
Communion, and: The Pine-Tree Sweetens My Body, and: I'll Take You to Africa
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The White Iris Beautifies Me
The White Iris Beautifies Me Cyrus Cassells (bio) Not the white of hard-won cotton, or of pitiless snow— I’ve found a whiteness that gives me its glory; it blooms in Master Bellemare’s garden, and though it is, by all counts, untouchable, quiet as it’s kept, I’ve carried it into the shabbiest of cabins, worn it as I witnessed the slave-breaker, the hanging tree; in dream-snatches it blesses me, and I become more than a brand, a pretty chess piece…
Wild Indigo, Because
Wild Indigo, Because Cyrus Cassells (bio) When rice was our nemesis and callous-making cotton, and the onus of a Satan-hot tobacco seemed to stain our very souls, beyond the spirit-choking pest houses of Sullivan Island (our Ellis Island), beyond the dust and ragtag squalor of slave row, we found a dew-soaked, purplish blue in the needed time— imagine, in a siren patch behind the blacksmith’s— a God-sent and doe-wild blue. [End Page 12] Cyrus Cas…
Liberators (Killian's Story)
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2002
The Abandoned Name (Killian's Story)
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2002
The Blind Girls (Elio's Story)
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2002
Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson
Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 3, Summer 2001
Night and Mist: For Carolyn Forche
Lament for Lorca
Down From The Houses of Magic
These Are Not Brushstrokes: In Homage to Picasso's Guernica (After a Viewing in Madrid)
To the Cypress Again and Again: For Salvador Espriu (1913-1985)
The Dream of Manhood
What the Soul Remembers
Unfamiliar Territory
Strange Fruit
Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson
Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 3, Summer 2001
Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit
What the Soul Remembers
Unfamiliar Territory
These Are Not Brushstrokes: In Homage to Picasso's Guernica (After a Viewing in Madrid)
To the Cypress Again and Again: For Salvador Espriu (1913-1985)
The Dream of Manhood
Night and Mist: For Carolyn Forche
Lament for Lorca
Down From The Houses of Magic
Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson
Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 3, Summer 2001
Liberators (Killian's Story)
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2002
The Abandoned Name (Killian's Story)
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2002
The Blind Girls (Elio's Story)
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2002
Communion, and: The Pine-Tree Sweetens My Body, and: I'll Take You to Africa
" * . *!& (!, * ' %!$# ('-* '& +$ . 4+ ''$ * +,!& ($ . & '+, & + +-+, & & & *, -$ +$ & +$ . *!+, & -(!, * / ' +,''& !+ &"' /!, *- $- &, *!& '*+ + $!& +$ . / ' $!. ,' + .'* -& '++ 1+ * % & , %! +, ' '& !& &-!,1 ( '/& ($ &,1 !& , %! +, ' ($ &,1 $'*!'-+ + $ '* , -$& ++ ,!% +( &, /!, , '$ '*+ , , * 1 &"' + % . & ,!% 3 * ($ &!+ !& * %!& / *%!& !% + , '*'- $1 + ' # + & , '% ($ $- ' +-(( * !* + $!# /!+ !& *'$!& / '$ ' 1 %'*&!& '-$ ' -(! '" % $ '" % *" +…
The White Iris Beautifies Me
The White Iris Beautifies Me Cyrus Cassells (bio) Not the white of hard-won cotton, or of pitiless snow— I’ve found a whiteness that gives me its glory; it blooms in Master Bellemare’s garden, and though it is, by all counts, untouchable, quiet as it’s kept, I’ve carried it into the shabbiest of cabins, worn it as I witnessed the slave-breaker, the hanging tree; in dream-snatches it blesses me, and I become more than a brand, a pretty chess piece…
Wild Indigo, Because
Wild Indigo, Because Cyrus Cassells (bio) When rice was our nemesis and callous-making cotton, and the onus of a Satan-hot tobacco seemed to stain our very souls, beyond the spirit-choking pest houses of Sullivan Island (our Ellis Island), beyond the dust and ragtag squalor of slave row, we found a dew-soaked, purplish blue in the needed time— imagine, in a siren patch behind the blacksmith’s— a God-sent and doe-wild blue. [End Page 12] Cyrus Cas…
Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets
The Bottle Tree
The Bottle Tree Cyrus Cassells (bio) Look, in lieu of shade-granting leaves, here is cobalt, green, and lion-colored glass to quell ghosts of feet-don’t-fail-me-now, ghosts of if-you’re-black-stay-back, specters of inglorious slaving ships and wolfish phantoms: Brother, passerby, cast an eye, for Deacon Killian’s austere lowcountry branches are adorned with sun-washed empties: (Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, Chardonnay, Manischewitz . . .), to alert M…
Caesars and Dreamers
Caesars and Dreamers Cyrus Cassells (bio) The pharaohs of rice and indigo, the conniving Caesars of cotton, what were we to them? Profitable: able bodies from Barbados and the Windward Coast, the Rice Coast, our souls ramshackle, less than a rooster’s or a rock’s. And yet, in painstaking fields, in joyous praise houses, our tenacious “Go Down, Moses,” our stirring, rallying “In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea . . . “ might…
Soul Make a Path Through Shouting
Praise Song
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