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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Leila Mottley follows her trailblazing first novel with a perfectly pitched first collection of poems that demonstrate her energy and range. woke up no light is full of heart and edge, subtlety and fluidity. Moving in sections from "girlhood" to "neighborhood" to "falsehood" to, finally, "womanhood," these poems open up the experiences of a young Black woman with immediacy and wisdom. Mottley sets forth personal and political revelation with piercing...
Author
Publisher
Third Man Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Part Savvy Lit Crit, part Blues chart, part hip revenge-femme-lyric, part imagined Interracial Romance Saga disguised as poems, In Lucy Negro, Redux:The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet, poet Caroline Randall Williams plays the literary Race Card and cuts the whole deck, moving backwards in time in and forward in mind, archeologically offering a precise and seductive command performance of the hidden temperament of a specific and beautiful Dark Ladyboth...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins--a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice. Harlins' murder and the following trial, whichresulted in no prison time for Du, were inciting incidents of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising...Taylor's poems present a profound look into the insidious points at which violence originates against--and...
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