Introduction / by Chris Abani
I. Bop : black queer southern studies ; On Tybee Island ; Deep root ; Malcolm Tariq's black bottom ; A woman hangs a cotton boll wreath on her door ; Niggerhead ; Index to the American slave ; Slave play ; Self-portrait as George Washington's teeth ; The road to Chocolate Plantation
II. On Stone Mountain ; Sugar ; Niggerhead ; Callie Barr's black bottom ; Grandma's black bottom ; The body politic ; Drapetomania ; 1 yearning ; Nocturne: without sanctuary ; Malcolm Tariq's black bottom ; Self-portrait as an unmarked grave ; On Sullivan's Island
III. Fucking [with] Ralph Ellison ; Fucking : a : proclamation ; Heed the hollow ; Malcolm Tariqu's black bottom ; Common feast ; Learning to bottom ; Addendum ; Cento in which the narrative precedes the lyric
