| Description |
76 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
had my parents not been separated after my father's traffic stop, arrest, and deportation from the United States of America -- Continent -- Southside apocalypse -- Interlude at a neighborhood gas station: 2001 -- God is good all the time -- Footnotes -- Ghazal for the Chicago two-step -- Ella: @ the skating rink -- The bust stop is crowded motif -- My brother ghost writes this poem -- Dyke prepares to see her family -- Ode to my ex-girlfriend -- Memory/loss -- Finding a black queer woman love with whom you are compatible is like finding a watermelon seed lodged in the pupil of whole fried chicken -- Time capsule -- The joke -- I'm the type of fanciful warlock who cooks up irrational fears in my idle mind with a crack plastered between my cheeks -- Twerk villanelle -- Listen: my right hand is covered in blood -- I wish to eat what my partner does not and this is how we love -- To distinguish an elephant from a husky black girl, one must look closely at the wreathing of the noose -- Ursula :: Hotel Poolside -- Notorious -- Brunch with twelve black phantoms -- Today is a day of tiny massacres -- Ode to mouth -- Tangled a.k.a. Rapunzel a.k.a. long-hair-don't-care and what -- Black body walks to the store in 13,839 pieces -- I milly rock on any block -- (again) -- After James Brown -- Black spells -- A brief anecdote on why white people stopped saying nigg-- -- The muse for this black dyke is a dead white man -- Water -- Look at what I've done! -- Aladdin's genie on emancipation -- The electric slide is not a dance, man! -- I am neither the poem, nor the words, not the letters, nor the images they elicit -- My mother -- Parable. |
| Summary |
"Porsha Olayiwola's debut poetry collection soars with the power and presence of live performance. These poems dip their hands deep into the fabric of black womanhood, pulling out all of its threads. This book establishes Porsha Olayiwola firmly in the lineage of black queer poetics, pulling equally from Audre Lorde and Danez Smith. This is a book of gentle breaking and inventive reconstruction. This is a book of self-care, and community-care--the pursuit of building a world that will keep you alive"-- Button Poetry |
| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors -- 21st century.
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American poetry -- African American authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807349
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
194373545X (paperback) |
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9781943735457 (paperback) |
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