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  • Chapter 3 - Breathing

  • from I - Poetry and Music
  • Edited by Shelly Eversley
  • Book:
    African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970
    Published online:
    10 November 2022
    Print publication:
    24 November 2022, pp 74-89

  • Summary

    Against the backdrop of 2020’s global pandemic, we witnessed the brutal murder of George Floyd. His words “I can’t breathe” hang heavy in the air, haunting our contemporary moment, as the white police officer squeezes his breath out of him. It is with this urgency in mind that this chapter turns to Sonia Sanchez’s methodology of breath and breathing. The breath and breathing practice, as Sanchez explains, helps us to “be much more healthy and ... maintain this climate the way it needs to be maintained.” This essay aims to not only garner a greater understanding of the resonances among people of color across time and space but also moves toward coalition-building as a methodology for today’s time of crisis.