Still Life with Rope and River in Bloomington, MN

Still Life with Rope and River
explores racism through a chorus of voices surrounding Emmett Till's murder. Through research in combination with emotional truth, Williams Shen uses persona poems to dive deep into the psyche of both common and lesser known people and objects regarding Till's lynching. Williams Shen also weaves in their own narrative and family history of how Blackness is dissected and dismissed, illustrating how the past is a ghost to the present.