Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems and Artifacts
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- Synopsis
- This book is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. The ancestors arise and fly, and the black female body is the 'insurgent sensualist,' hunted but fighting to live and love in the ways it wants and knows best: "I loved being / a black girl but had not yet learned / to play dead . . ." The tenderness of a father's handwritten notes shadows the collection like a ghost, while the treasured, not-for-sale interiority of a black girl's fountainhead takes over every page. "One yellaw gal with an all-black tongue has gone missing." The author has composed a new black spiritual, and one of the great voices of our time again stamps her singular sound into the new day.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 261 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780810142015
- Publisher:
- TriQuarterly Books
- Date of Addition:
- 06/29/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Nikky Finney
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Children's Books, Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.