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"Woke up no light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from 'girlhood' to 'neighborhood' to 'falsehood' to, finally, 'womanhood,' these poems reckon with themes of reparations, restitution, and desire....From unearthing histories...
2) Black bell
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"Inspired by the nineteenth-century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison C. Rollins’s Black Bell explores and catalogues both individual experience and collective memory....Poems travel across time and space, between the eighteenth century and futuristic fabulations, vibrating with fugitive frequencies, sounds of survival, and nerve-racking notes tuned toward love and liberation. Black Bell navigates what it means to be...
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"In Thick with Trouble...Amber McBride interrogates if being 'trouble'--difficult, unruly, powerful, defiant--is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the hoodoo spiritual tradition and organized via reimagined tarot cards, this collection becomes a chorus of unapologetic women who laugh, cry, mesmerize, and bring outsiders to their knees. Summoning the supernatural to examine death, rebirth, and life outside the...
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"April Gibson journeys through the emotional abysses, the daily pleasures, the frustrations, and the joys of being a Black woman living with chronic illness. Gibson offers a unique perspective on 'the body,' viewing disability and healthcare through both feminist and socio-economic lenses filtered by race and faith. Through...sensory language that migrates memories, from carefree innocence to the ravages formed in its absence, Gibson bears witness...
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"A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with 'a story pulsing in every blood cell.' In Besaydoo, Kamara serves as griot for the Freeborn in Oakland, the Sierra Leonean in California, the girl straddling womanhood, the woman re-discovering herself. 'I am made from the obsession of detail,' she writes, setting scenes from her own multifaceted legacy in sharp relief: the memory of her mother’s singing, savory stacks of lumpia,...
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