{"id":650,"date":"2022-09-13T12:48:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=650"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:48:56","slug":"last-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2022\/09\/13\/last-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLast Call\u201d from Saeed Jones\u2019 <\/span>Prelude to Bruise<\/span><\/i> is an violent exploration of queer yearning and the speakers\u2019 submission to their sexuality. Readers are introduced to violent imagery within the first line; \u201cNight presses the gunmetal O of its mouth \/ against my own\u201d (Jones 16). Night is personified as a gun, which is an inherently dangerous weapon. What is interesting is how the speaker responds; \u201cI can\u2019t help how I answer\u201d (Jones 16). The speaker understands that this kiss is dangerous, but he is willing to give in. The speaker continues, describing his interaction with this person. Saeed writes, \u201cHe is the taste of smoke\u201d (16). The use of a metaphor emphasizes how the speaker envisions this person. If a simile was used instead, describing him as or like \u201cthe taste of smoke\u201d the gravity of the situation would be lost. Jones utilizes enjambment to emphasize the sexual nature of the situation; \u201cNeed another double-black \/ kiss\u201d (16). \u201cKiss\u201d begins a line, despite it being the end of the sentence. Jones wants the reader to understand that this is a romantic and sexual encounter, and that is why it is so dangerous. Furthering this point are the last two stanzas; \u201c…before I let the lake \/ grab my ankles & take me into its muddy mouth. \/\/ They say a city is at the bottom of all that water\u201d (16). I interpret this line as the lake is the speaker\u2019s sexuality, which comes with danger and struggle, but the city is his life when he lives as his true self.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cLast Call\u201d from Saeed Jones\u2019 Prelude to Bruise is an violent exploration of queer yearning and the speakers\u2019 submission to their sexuality. Readers are introduced to violent imagery within the first line; \u201cNight presses the gunmetal O of its mouth \/ against my own\u201d (Jones 16). Night is personified as a gun, which is an … Continue reading Last Call<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4986,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4986"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}