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Red Magnetic
Dragon
Here beginsThe Count of Days
Here beginThe Matrix and the
Way
Into Fields unified
Consciousness exalted
Portals activated
Galaxies articulated
Another Spin – A Universe revealed
Another Birth –Sweet Earth healed.
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Michelle Carla Cliff
Michelle Carla Cliff (2 November 1946 – 12 June 2016) was a Jamaican-American author whose notable works included Abeng (1985), No Telephone to Heaven (1987), and Free Enterprise (2004).
Cliff also wrote short stories, prose poems and works of literary criticism. Her works explore the various, complex identity problems that stem from post-colonialism, as well as the difficulty of establishing an authentic, individual identity despite race and gender constructs. A historical revisionist, many of Cliff's works sought to advance an alternative view of history against the established mainstream narrative. Cliff was a lesbian who was born in British Jamaica.
Biography
Cliff was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1946 and moved with her family to New York City three years later. She moved back to Jamaica in 1956 and attended St. Andrew High School for Girls, where she kept a diary and began her writings before returning to New York City in 1960. She was educated at Wagner College and the Warburg Institute at the University of London. She has held academic positions at several colleges including Trinity College and Emory University.
Cliff was a contributor to the 1983 Black feminist anthology Home Girls.
Since 1999, Cliff was living in Santa Cruz, California, with her partner, poet Adrienne Rich. The two were partners from 1976; Rich died in 2012.
Cliff died of liver failure on 12 June 2016.
Works
Fiction
2010: Into the Interior. Novel. University of Minnesota Press
2009: Everything is Now: New and Collected Stories. Short stories. University Of Minnesota Press
2004: Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant. Novel, City Lights Publishers
1998: The Store of a Million Items (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company). Short stories
1993: Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant (New York: Dutton). Novel
1990: Bodies of Water (New York: Dutton). Short stories
1987: No Telephone to Heaven (New York: Dutton). Novel (sequel to Abeng)
1985: Abeng (New York: Penguin). Novel
Prose poetry
1985: The Land of Look Behind and Claiming (Firebrand Books).
1980: Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise (Persephone Press).
Editor
1982: Lillian Smith, The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings (New York: Norton).
Other
2008: If I Could Write This in Fire. Non-fiction collection. University of Minnesota Press
1982: "If I Could Write This in Fire I Would Write This in Fire", in Barbara Smith, ed., Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press).
1994: "History as Fiction, Fiction as History", Ploughshares, Fall 1994; 20(2-3): 196-202.
1990: "Object into Subject: Some Thoughts on the Work of Black Women's Artists," in Gloria Anzaldúa, ed., Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color (San Francisco: Aunt Lute), pp. 271–290.
Feminism
In 1981, Cliff became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press*
IMIX
Kin 1: Red Magnetic Dragon
I unify in order to nurture
Attracting being
I seal the input of birth
With the magnetic tone of purpose
I am guided by my own power doubled
I am a galactic activation portal
Enter me.
Once you have been granted wholeness, you will never be anywhere else but where you have always been.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Muladhara Chakra (Seli Plasma)
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