Black Girl, Call Home (Poetry)

Black Girl, Call Home (Poetry)
Jasmine Mans
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Paperback
h196 x 128mm
9 Mar 2021 US
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9780593197141
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A literary coming-of-age poetry collection, an ode to the places we call home, and a piercingly intimate deconstruction of daughterhood, Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing. A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine. Vulture. Essence. Elle. Cosmopolitan. Real Simple. Marie Claire. Refinery 29. She Reads. The Everygirl. Medium. Career Contessa"You are carrying in your hands a Black woman' s heart. "-Jericho Brown, author of Pulitzer Prize winnerThe Tradition" Mans' lucid and lyrical lines are as undeniable as those of a pop song yet as arresting as only spoken word artistry can be. "-O, the Oprah MagazineFrom spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity. With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself-and us-home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America-and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman. Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.
"You are carrying in your hands a Black woman' s heart. "-Jericho Brown, author of Pulitzer Prize winner The Tradition "Mans takes up the tools of Brooks and Sanchez into her good hands and chisels us an urgent and grand work, proving why she' s the favorite poet of all the girls in the back of the bus. "-Danez Smith, author of National Book Award finalist for poetry Don' t Call Us Dead "This book is a haven for all the Black daughters out there, hoping to make sense of the power and powerlessness in their bodies, the connection to others' bodies, and the moments of everyday life that comprise so much of our identities. "-Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing "These poems both explode and glimmer on the page. They demand to be read, to be shared, to be revisited time and time again. "-Clint Smith, author of NAACP Image Award finalist Counting Descent "Writing in surefooted verse, Mans refuses to allow our stories to be misunderstood; she needs the world to get it for once. . . So if you find yourself lost in a past that predates you or a city that erased you, these poems promise to look for you-damn where you been. They will welcome you home and fix you a plate, quietly, like any mother would. "-Dr. Alysia Harris, Pushcart nominated author of How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars "The collection is so steeped with tenderness, it feels intimate and wholly relatable-we hear our mother' s warnings, our grandmother' s wisdom, and our lover' s regret beneath her words. This is a phenomenal debut. "-Maisy Card, author of These Ghosts Are Family
Jasmine Mans is a Black American power, artist from Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison, with a B. A. in African American Studies. Her debut collection of poetry was published in 2012, (Chalk Outlines of Snow Angels). Mans is the resident power at the Newark Public Library. She was a member of the Strivers Row Collective.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780593197141
Published: 9 Mar 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Berkley Publishing Corporation US
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 128mm
Pages: 1

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