... other state in the union. 2 Looking closely at One Big Self and another of Luster s major projects, Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish (2008 10), this chapter explores several different kinds of photographic returns. Like Sally Mann, Luster looks back to nineteenth- century...

..., had her hair pulled back in a single braid, and showed no sign of adorn- ment, not even the gold-starred front tooth that seemed to be the fashion among women in La Igualdad. When she smiled, I saw she had no front teeth at all. (Carlos would later tell me why so many of the women had A HOUS E BURN ED...

... fellow kissed the negro,” said one astonished little girl who had witnessed the osculating ceremony. . . . This founder [Seymour] of the sect stands full six feet in height.* He wears a rubber collar, decorated by no sign of necktie. Adorning his mouth is open massive gold tooth, flanked...

... to center the story on Dimples has very rightly put them in their place, accessorizing, but not driving the story. Ms. Cooper has described this proj ect as a very personal one for her, and she has fought tooth and nail to have unheard-of creative control. The end product is one that gestures...

... grin revealed a rotten tooth as he flipped an ace, a queen, and back- to- back fives. That s thirty- five, he said. Let s get it in. He dropped to the floor and commenced to doing push- ups. Now, I took pride in being an athlete, but that was a lot of push- ups. Still, I wasn t about to let...

... and in response to this dialectic, a range of women undertook a proj ect of psychophysical aesthesis that remade their ungovernable sweet tooth, their bad taste, into the basis of culinary expertise. To explore the af- fective rather than digestive demands that sweetness makes on the feeling body was, for them...

... or beans; she sold rotten eggs for fresh ones; in her calabash of palma-christi oil, she always poured some syrup; her bag of coffee contained at least five pounds of small stones that imitated the color of that bean; finally, in her way, she responded, an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth to the disloyal...

... the village join us in the yard, and we play in the dark with a vivid curiosity. We examine new growth on a young coconut palm, and find a smooth sac of spider eggs tucked up beneath the lightest green leaf. We guess at the animal that left tooth marks in a fallen avocado. We watch streams of ants swarm...

.... Dracula anD the artist. LeFt PaneL: Dreaming DraCuLa. right PaneL: DraCuLa vanquisheD by art. The image in the left panel, Dreaming Dracula, shows a black woman with broken, unkempt hair, dressed in a loose white shift. Her attention is focused on the flight of broken- toothed combs descending...

... is made not to the people, but by them. Singers Sibel Thrasher and Sharon Matthews articulate the costs of citizenship in the form of their bodies and souls: I ll give you my eyes / I ll give you my ears . . . I ll love you tooth for tooth and eye for eye. 33 The only possible resistance to this regime...

..., by the same name, that is produced when a patient has been bitten by the tooth of a dead hunter, an object normally kept as an amulet helpful for hunting. When the tooth is neglected, Turner re- counts, it enters someone s body and travels along the veins, biting and inf licting a unique disease. The thing...

... in anthropology, humanity. It was Uma who blurted out as a toddler exactly what had to be said one morning when a truck cut us off on the way to her brother s school: Argh, people! But she has also promised variously, in the years in which this book was written, to become a butterfly, a tooth fairy, or a purple...

... String Beans May, aka the Elgin Movements man, diamond inlaid in a gold tooth, whose smash success in Chicago in 1911 brought the full force of southern vernacular entertainment to the big city. Whitney complained: What is the use of creating a sketch that makes an intelligent appeal and have...

...- ment, not even the gold-starred front tooth that seemed to be the fashion among women in La Igualdad. When she smiled, I saw she had no front teeth at all. (Carlos would later tell me why so many of the women had A HOUS E BURN ED 1 6 the same star on the same tooth. It was common for breastfeeding...

.... . . . This founder [Seymour] of the sect stands full six feet in height.* He wears a rubber collar, decorated by no sign of necktie. Adorning his mouth is open massive gold tooth, flanked by rows of other teeth, perfectly straight and white. . . . His voice is like the roaring of a cannon, and . . . he has...

... who had witnessed the osculating ceremony. . . . This founder [Seymour] of the sect stands full six feet in height.* He wears a rubber collar, decorated by no sign of necktie. Adorning his mouth is open massive gold tooth, flanked by rows of other teeth, perfectly straight and white...

... of seem- ingly folk- derived country blues, actually utilized a guitar lick taken from Butler String Beans May, aka the Elgin Movements man, diamond inlaid in a gold tooth, whose smash success in Chicago in 1911 brought the full force of southern vernacular entertainment to the big city. Whitney...

... spectacle. Gap- toothed Ollie North and his proclamations of innocence, the volume of hair on his sec- retary, Fawn Hall, reports I read of Reagan declaring, I am a Contra. I had consumed all of this as an innocent, and by writing poems I began issuing my declarations of in de pen dence. Recently, I...