Front and back covers of Saul Williams’ deeply moving 2015 imprint, US (a.), for Gallery Books.
Excerpt on a beautiful mother, ‘the granddaughter of hardworking Haitian immigrants who arrived on Ellis Island in 1917’, from US (a.) by Saul Williams: “Sips tea, I type. I’ve got the perfect caption. Blast thoughts and reap reactions. Little time for reasoning. My mother now living alone in ancity she inherited from my sisters, shows little interest in her memory. Runs to keep up with the present. Shares articles about corruption and fraud, good news for believers. Not one to blind-copy.*
Good morning from US (a.), said Saul.
*And my ‘us’ was particular. In some places, they had never encountered a Black American, yet they had surely heard of “us”. “Martyr Loser King! was what I heard through their thick accents*
#RammellzeeAtTheBattleOfTheRepublic #PatternAgainstUser #DearMama
