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41) Sugar work
Author
Publisher
Alice James Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sugar Work chronicles the complexities of womanhood, race, and gender that arose from growing up around sex work in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Poems investigate beauty and whiteness, the aftermath of sexual trauma on the female body, divorce, desire, and art itself. Narrative poems reflect on female sexuality and self-acceptance after a complex childhood, informing the speaker's ever-changing relationship with love"--
42) Tomorrow's woman
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Tomorrow's Woman, Greta Bellamacina's bold, exploratory voice combines the vivid imagery of French surrealism and British romantic poetry with a modern, first-person examination of love, gender identity, motherhood, and social issues. Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine writes that 'Bellamacina is garnering critical acclaim for her way with words and her ability to translate the classic poetic form into the contemporary creative landscape'"--Publisher's...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image. A a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space, and reality to illuminate the expansiveness of Black femme lives.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things, bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems. within these pages, you will find that each of us has the ability to be both soft & fierce at the same time. there is no need to choose one or the other."
Author
Series
What she felt volume 4
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes comes an ode for all women. This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything you've been fighting for. Yourself, a peace of mind, and everything your heart deserves. You fit inside these words."--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
For the first time ever, the complete poetry collection spanning three decades from Nikki Giovanni, renowned poet and one of America's national treasures. When her poems first emerged during the Black Arts Movement, in the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni immediately took her place among the most celebrated, controversial and influential poets of the era. Now, more than thirty years later, Giovanni still stands as one of the most commanding, luminous voices...
Author
Series
Things that h(a)unt duology volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive relationship. She poses the eternal question: Can you heal once you've been marked by a monster, or will the sun always sting? -- from goodreads.com
49) Dereliction
Author
Series
Song Cave volume 48
Publisher
The Song Cave
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Dereliction is a debut collection of poetry by Gabrielle Octavia Rucker. Rucker is a self-taught writer and poetic practitioner from the Great Lakes currently living in the Gulf Coast. She is a 2020 Poetry Project Fellow and 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. Her work has appeared in various media and publications, including the Sundance Film Festival, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series, Annulet, Montez Press...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures. Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external, Woman, Eat Me Whole is an entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world. Moving between Ghana and the United States, Diaka probes...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism, examining and confronting modern media, consumption, feminism, and Blackness. This collection explores femininity and race...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Discover this exquisite poetry and prose collection about the pains of growing up from the popular millennial Instagram poet, perfect for fans of Amanda Lovelace and Rupi Kaur. Following her breakout debut Eighteen Years, poet Madisen Kuhn is thrilled to share this intimate portrait of a young woman navigating early adulthood and leaving her teenage years behind. Chronicling the complexities, joys, and challenges of this transitional phase of life,...
Author
Series
You are your own fairy tale volume 2
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents shine your icy crown, the second installment in her new feminist poetry series, "you are your own fairy tale." this is a story about not letting society dictate the limits of your potential. it's time to take back your power & realize that you don't need a king in order to be a queen."--
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Each poem in Rachel Long's award-winning My Darling from the Lions has a vivid story to tell-of family quirks, the perils of dating, the grip of religion, or sexual awakening-stories that are, by turn, emotionally insightful, politically conscious, wise, funny, and outrageous. Told in three sections, it's a book about growing up, falling in love with not-great men, and girlhood; a collection that speaks to femininity, divinity, familial shame, Black...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a psychoanalyst became a painter after surviving a stroke, her longtime patient, distinguished and beloved poet Molly Peacock, took up a unique task. The Analyst is a new, visceral, twenty-first century "in memoriam" of ambiguous loss in which Peacock brilliantly tells the story of a decades-long patient-therapist relationship that now reverses and continues to evolve. Peacock invigorates the notion of poetry as word-painting: A tapestry of images,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Women Holding Things includes the bright, bold images featured in the booklet as well as an additional sixty-seven new paintings highlighted by thoughtful and intimate anecdotes, recollections, and ruminations. Most are portraits of women, both ordinary and famous, including Virginia Woolf, Sally Hemings, Hortense Cezanne, Gertrude Stein, as well as Kalman's family members and other real-life people. These women hold a range of objects, from the...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay--dearly, with both money and conscience--to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: "$20 for five minutes. I'll hold your hand in my own," one ghost says. "I'll tell you you were good to me." Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines...
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 180
Publisher
BOA Editions, Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A series of poems drawn from various collections published throughout the 40-year career of American poet Lucille Clifton"--
"How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood and resilience shimmer with intellect, insight, humor, and joy, all in Clifton's...
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