Dallas: Mixed Verse from a Shooting

By Jeff Hood

Do you remember? Do you remember those moments? Do you remember the moments that changed your life? On July 7, 2016, Jeff Hood was changed. Shots rang out in Dallas. Five police officers were killed. Nine officers and two civilians were injured. Hood was there. In many ways, he still is. There, organizing and speaking at the rally. There, standing in the middle of the pavement as the shots rang out. There, running down the street. There, trying to save lives. There, striving to stay on message. This is Hood's story . . . told through the verse he was able to construct in the days that followed the bullets.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Release date: Jan 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781498240512

Jeff Hood

Jeff Hood is a mentally ill chicken farmer, activist, and theologian. A graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Emory University, amongst other institutions, Hood earned his doctorate in Queer Theology at Brite Divinity School. Hood has consistently been arrested seeking liberation for the marginalized and oppressed. In addition to authoring twelve previous books and blogging regularly for the The Huffington Post, Hood writes daily at revjeffhood.com.

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Mixed Verse from a Shooting

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Mixed Verse from a Shooting

Copyright © 2017 Jeff Hood. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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February 7, 2017

Table of Contents

Title Page

Babel.

Relearning to Think

Mixed Prayers

Again

Alton Sterling

Police

Organizing

Philando Castile

Numbers

Better Prepared

Interviews

Young Man on the Bench

Christian

Parked

Closer

Familiar Speakers

The Hill

The Pastor in the Crowd

Angry Words

Black Lives Matter

God Damn White America

Prayerful Utterances

Electioneering

Guns

The Sgt.

The March

The Faces in the Restaurants

Louder and Louder

The Eye

Steps

Where are we going?

The Shooter

Lynched

The Shots

Shooting

Screams

Active Shooter

Prayers

Television

The Station

The First Interview

Emily

Sleep

Good Morning America

Interviews

The Words

The Crazies

Holed Up

The Sermon

Trauma

Downtown

Prayer

Now

Dallas.

For the Victims of Dallas

Babel.

After

The Huffington Post

July 18, 2016

Writing used to be easy. Now, nothing seems easy. Leaning in, I just stare at the screen. Occasionally, I try to type something. Despite my desperation to write, my mind is held captive to a former place.

Bloody films never leave you. Every image sticks. The officer took his gun and shot Alton Sterling dead. Amidst the screams, Philando Castile bled out. Everyone wanted to