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I'm about to return this book to the Library, but I just wanted to pull out two of the pieces/selections from this book that really stuck with me. Those two selections are below.
The whole book is pretty powerful, but in an understated/everyday way...basically because microaggressions are that way. Also there are art selections included that add to the whole experience.
because white men can't
police their imagination
black men are dying
You take in things you don't want all the time. The second yo ...more
The whole book is pretty powerful, but in an understated/everyday way...basically because microaggressions are that way. Also there are art selections included that add to the whole experience.
because white men can't
police their imagination
black men are dying
You take in things you don't want all the time. The second yo ...more
I will re-read this book. It’s brilliant, and arresting, and should be required reading, if I believed in required reading. It’s a lyric in that her poems are lyric poems, and she has a lyric essay as well. But it’s a disjointed lyric, with fragmentations and disruptions brilliantly deployed. There is also art embedded in the pieces.
Is is a beautiful book. But be prepared for non-linear thinking and connections. It doesn’t read how most people assume poems should be read. It disrupts and forces ...more
Is is a beautiful book. But be prepared for non-linear thinking and connections. It doesn’t read how most people assume poems should be read. It disrupts and forces ...more
Poetry/prose. Racist actions. James Baldwin. Serena Williams. Words have power.
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