Marie, Aurielle
Summary: "Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MARButts, Anthony.
Contents: The Saint Brigid psalms -- Before autumn -- Song of starry-eyed children -- Intercession to Saint Brigid -- Mist and fog -- Song of earth and sky -- The landscape for growth -- Eight modes toward desire -- Thin places -- Ice palaces -- Pygmalion -- The memory of light -- Soldiers -- Fretwork -- Voices' end -- Embers -- Far from home -- Wise and innocent -- The distance from here to there --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009