Sebree, Chet'la
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SEBMottley, Leila
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Long Soldier, Layli
Summary: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award. WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LONRikkers, Laing F.
Summary: "Steeped in lush art and poetry that invites reflection, Morning Leaves is the perfect gift for those grieving the loss of a loved one."--Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collective Book Studio 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 RIKDeLind, Laura B. (Laura Barwicke)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014