can i deduce the nature of humanity from the relationship of american and multinational pharmaceutical corporations to african women with hiv? ~ is it natural to test pharmaceuticals on people who are citizens of less powerful nations, members of a devalued gender, representatives of a maligned race? ~ is it logical? ~ is it cost-effective? ~ is the nature of the relationship of american and multinational pharmaceutical corporations to african women with hiv economic or human? ~ economic or humane? ~ are african women with hiv human? ~ are african women human? ~ are africans human? ~ are american and multinational pharmaceutical corporations human? ~ are american corporations human? ~ are americans human? ~ are american corporations citizens? ~ are africans american? ~ are african americans multinational? ~ can humans have a relationship to american and multinational pharmaceutical corporations? ~ are corporations corporeal? ~ are corporations real? ~ are corporations corpses? ~ are corporations gendered? ~ are women representative? ~ are humans incorporated? ~ are humans pharmaceutical? ~ is hiv pharmaceutical? ~ is nature pharmaceutical? ~ is nature humane? ~ is nature natural? ~ are nations natural? ~ are nations raced? ~ are nations corporations? ~ are nations cost-effective? ~ is nationality a test? ~ can i deduce the humanity of the reader from the relationship of the reader to american and multinational pharmaceutical corporations? ~ can i deduce the nature of the reader from the relationship of the reader to african women with hiv?
Added: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 / From "semiautomatic," (Wesleyan University Press, 2017). Used with permission.
Photo by Nancy Crampton.
Evie Shockley is the author of semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize. Her other works include the new black (2011), which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011). Her honors include the 2015 Stephen Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry and the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize. In 2019-2020, she will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Shockley is Professor of English at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
