Birdsong, Destiny O.
Summary: "What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal publications, about autoimmune disease and the speaker's intense hunger for her own body-a surprise of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BIRGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: From the Publisher: In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles, she's collected...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIORollins, Alison C.
Summary: Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison C. Rollins's Black Bell continues an exploration of cataloging individual experience and collective memory. As Rollins sets out to resuscitate and embody the archive, we see a chorus of historical figures like Eliza Harris, Henry "Box" Brown, and Lear Green; readers can listen in as Phillis...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2024