COVER ART: BENJAMIN TARQUIN
The Just and the Blind (2019)
Poems from the Performance Work
by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
36 pages PDF book
Storyboard illustrations by Benjamin Tarquin, from The Just and the Blind film series directed by Yoram Savion, YAK Films
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POET’S NOTE:
We are weighing the scale of a teenager’s mistakes against the gravity of a father’s memory, hoping to get out of jail/free…How does a black boy become an American? How does he learn his role to play? And what if that role, in part, is to stand in his country’s closet, waiting for someone to imagine him as a monster in the dark?
-Marc Bamuthi Joseph
The Just and the Blind performance work was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and produced by Sozo Artists, Inc., in partnership with the Sozo Impact Fund and its fiscal sponsor, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and with support from Ford Foundation.The Just and the Blind performance and film series are scored by Daniel Bernard Roumain.
For more, visit thejustandtheblind.com
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