Author: Nancy Morejón
Publisher: Mango Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
One of Cuba's most important contemporary poets is celebrated in this compilation of collected works. Arranged by the poet herself, this anthology spans more than three decades of work and draws from her most popular and critically acclaimed publications, including Grenada Notebook, Indispensable October, and Places in Time. Both the Spanish originals and their English translations are included.
Black Woman and Other Poems
Author: Nancy Morejón
Publisher: Mango Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
One of Cuba's most important contemporary poets is celebrated in this compilation of collected works. Arranged by the poet herself, this anthology spans more than three decades of work and draws from her most popular and critically acclaimed publications, including Grenada Notebook, Indispensable October, and Places in Time. Both the Spanish originals and their English translations are included.
Publisher: Mango Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
One of Cuba's most important contemporary poets is celebrated in this compilation of collected works. Arranged by the poet herself, this anthology spans more than three decades of work and draws from her most popular and critically acclaimed publications, including Grenada Notebook, Indispensable October, and Places in Time. Both the Spanish originals and their English translations are included.
I Am a Black Woman
Author: Mari Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Build Yourself a Boat
Author: Camonghne Felix
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608466140
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
2019 National Book Award Longlist: “Centering on black, female identity, [this is] an exquisite and thoughtful collection.” —Bustle This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. A finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory. “With Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling.” —Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608466140
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
2019 National Book Award Longlist: “Centering on black, female identity, [this is] an exquisite and thoughtful collection.” —Bustle This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. A finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory. “With Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling.” —Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro
Negotiations
Author: Destiny O. Birdsong
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1951142136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Full of wonder." —Elizabeth Acevedo A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and Entropy Magazine What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal publications, about autoimmune disease and the speaker’s intense hunger for her own body—a surprise of self-love in the aftermath of both assault and diagnosis. It’s a series of love letters to black women, who are often singled out for abuse and assault, silencing and tokenism, fetishization and cultural appropriation in ways that throw the rock, then hide the hand. It is a book about tenderness and an indictment of people and systems that attempt to narrow black women’s lives, their power. But it is also an examination of complicity—both a narrative and a black box warning for a particular kind of self-healing that requires recognizing culpability when and where it exists.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1951142136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Full of wonder." —Elizabeth Acevedo A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and Entropy Magazine What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal publications, about autoimmune disease and the speaker’s intense hunger for her own body—a surprise of self-love in the aftermath of both assault and diagnosis. It’s a series of love letters to black women, who are often singled out for abuse and assault, silencing and tokenism, fetishization and cultural appropriation in ways that throw the rock, then hide the hand. It is a book about tenderness and an indictment of people and systems that attempt to narrow black women’s lives, their power. But it is also an examination of complicity—both a narrative and a black box warning for a particular kind of self-healing that requires recognizing culpability when and where it exists.
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems
Author: Georgia Douglas Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night
Author: Morgan Parker
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 195114256X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night—the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets—is back in print. The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she’s become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York School and reality television. She collapses any foolish distinctions between the personal and the political, the “high” and the “low.” Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker’s work.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 195114256X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night—the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets—is back in print. The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she’s become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York School and reality television. She collapses any foolish distinctions between the personal and the political, the “high” and the “low.” Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains everything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker’s work.
The Fat Black Woman's Poems
Author: Grace Nichols
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9780349017402
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beauty is a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheek while the sun lights up her feet Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors, to a white world that still turns its back. Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of 'the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures'.
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9780349017402
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beauty is a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheek while the sun lights up her feet Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors, to a white world that still turns its back. Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of 'the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures'.
Field Study
Author: Chet'la Sebree
Publisher: FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374722641
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets "Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others—a meditation on desire, race, loss and survival." --Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Memorial Drive Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly humorous, and startlingly vulnerable prose poem I am society’s eraser shards—bits used to fix other people’s sh*t, then discarded. Somehow still a wet nurse, from actual babes to Alabama special elections. Seeking to understand the fallout of her relationship with a white man, the poet Chet’la Sebree attempts a field study of herself. Scientifically, field studies are objective collections of raw data, devoid of emotion. But during the course of a stunning lyric poem, Sebree’s control over her own field study unravels as she attempts to understand the depth of her feelings in response to the data of her life. The result is a singular and provocative piece of writing, one that is formally inventive, playfully candid, and soul-piercingly sharp. Interspersing her reflections with Tweets, quips from TV characters, and excerpts from the Black thinkers—Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, Tressie McMillan Cottom—that inspire her, Sebree analyzes herself through the lens of a society that seems uneasy, at best, with her very presence. She grapples with her attraction to, and rejection of, whiteness and white men; probes the malicious manifestation of colorism and misogynoir throughout American history and media; and struggles with, judges, and forgives herself when she has more questions than answers. “Even as I accrue these notes,” Sebree writes, “I’m still not sure I’ve found the pulse.” A poem of love, heartbreak, womanhood, art, sex, Blackness, and America—sometimes all at once—Field Study throbs with feeling, searing and tender. With uncommon sensitivity and precise storytelling, Sebree makes meaning out of messiness and malaise, breathing life into a scientific study like no other.
Publisher: FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374722641
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets "Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others—a meditation on desire, race, loss and survival." --Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Memorial Drive Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly humorous, and startlingly vulnerable prose poem I am society’s eraser shards—bits used to fix other people’s sh*t, then discarded. Somehow still a wet nurse, from actual babes to Alabama special elections. Seeking to understand the fallout of her relationship with a white man, the poet Chet’la Sebree attempts a field study of herself. Scientifically, field studies are objective collections of raw data, devoid of emotion. But during the course of a stunning lyric poem, Sebree’s control over her own field study unravels as she attempts to understand the depth of her feelings in response to the data of her life. The result is a singular and provocative piece of writing, one that is formally inventive, playfully candid, and soul-piercingly sharp. Interspersing her reflections with Tweets, quips from TV characters, and excerpts from the Black thinkers—Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, Tressie McMillan Cottom—that inspire her, Sebree analyzes herself through the lens of a society that seems uneasy, at best, with her very presence. She grapples with her attraction to, and rejection of, whiteness and white men; probes the malicious manifestation of colorism and misogynoir throughout American history and media; and struggles with, judges, and forgives herself when she has more questions than answers. “Even as I accrue these notes,” Sebree writes, “I’m still not sure I’ve found the pulse.” A poem of love, heartbreak, womanhood, art, sex, Blackness, and America—sometimes all at once—Field Study throbs with feeling, searing and tender. With uncommon sensitivity and precise storytelling, Sebree makes meaning out of messiness and malaise, breathing life into a scientific study like no other.
Black Girl, Call Home
Author: Jasmine Mans
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593197143
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Time • Vogue • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Marie Claire • Refinery 29 • Shondaland • Pop Sugar • Bustle • Reader's Digest “Nothing short of sublime, and the territory [Mans'] explores...couldn’t be more necessary.”—Vogue From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity. With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America—and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman. Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593197143
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Time • Vogue • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Marie Claire • Refinery 29 • Shondaland • Pop Sugar • Bustle • Reader's Digest “Nothing short of sublime, and the territory [Mans'] explores...couldn’t be more necessary.”—Vogue From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity. With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America—and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman. Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.
Dear Black Woman
Author: Revonne Johnson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986184298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This poetry collection celebrates the black woman-a woman who often goes unnoticed and unrewarded for her efforts. We, as black women, must support each other if we are to overcome the barrage of negative stereotypes that continue to overshadow our worth. We can learn from each other by celebrating our individual and collective accomplishments. This poetry collection includes poems about black women collectively as well as several "tribute" poems. Each tribute poem focuses on a single woman, highlighting a single moment, a personal challenge, a relationship, an experience, a unique accomplishment, or an act of personal sacrifice by that woman.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986184298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This poetry collection celebrates the black woman-a woman who often goes unnoticed and unrewarded for her efforts. We, as black women, must support each other if we are to overcome the barrage of negative stereotypes that continue to overshadow our worth. We can learn from each other by celebrating our individual and collective accomplishments. This poetry collection includes poems about black women collectively as well as several "tribute" poems. Each tribute poem focuses on a single woman, highlighting a single moment, a personal challenge, a relationship, an experience, a unique accomplishment, or an act of personal sacrifice by that woman.