Works cited: Roland Barthes’s Mourning Diary, James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Mary Oliver’s poem “The Summer Day,” Judith Butler’s Senses of the Subject, Carl Phillips’s Reconnaissance, Yiyun Li’s Where Reasons End, Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Audre Lorde’s poem “A Litany for Survival,” Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s The Undercommons, Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva, Kogonada’s film Columbus, Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom.
