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'Loss of Breath Is the Legacy' : Not so Much an Anthology as a ReckoningDeclan Fry/specialistDatasets/BlackWords ,
2020single work review — Appears in:
Australian Book Review,August
no.
4232020;(p. 60) — Review of
Fire Front : First Nations Poetry and Power Today2020anthology poetry essay ''The constant loss of breath is the legacy.' So wrote poet Ali Cobby Eckermann in 2015 for the anthology The Intervention. The eponymous Intervention of 2007 in the Northern Territory was, in the long history of this continent, the first time that the federal government had deployed the army against its own citizenry. As I write this review, in the United States police are using tear gas, traditionally reserved for warfare, against those protesting the worth of black life, while the president flirts with the idea of calling in the military.' (Introduction)
