How Her Spirit Got Out by Krysten Hill

How Her Spirit Got Out by Krysten Hill

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Krysten Hill's HOW HER SPIRIT GOT OUT is a lively, urgent song. Answering the writers whose voices raised her, Hill calls on Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, and Zora Neale Hurston to help her navigate the complicated landscape of selfhood. Hill's speaker, wise and direct, open yet elusive, also sings for the women who brought her up: her aunt, her grandmother, and her mother. These spirits who've guided her life and taught her through example how black women persevere, have given her the means to bear witness to an age of racial violence. With intensity, audacity, and a darkly comic wit, Hill grapples with the question of how to fight a city that knows you're unarmed, rendering each poem as a weapon and a shield, and using both for self-defense.

Necessary and powerful.These poems are a middle finger tucked in the hip pocket of your favorite dress.--Jill McDonough

These poems exude at once vulnerability, rawness, and lucid beauty.--Danielle Legros Georges

Hill, Krysten: - Krysten Hill is an educator, writer, and performer who has showcased her poetry on stage at The Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Blacksmith House, Cantab Lounge, Merrimack College, U35 Reading Series, and many others. She received her MFA in poetry from UMass Boston where she currently teaches. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Word Riot, The Baltimore Review, B O D Y, Muzzle, PANK, Winter Tangerine Review, apt, Amethyst Arsenic, Damfino, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 St Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award.

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ISBN 13	9781941143087
ISBN 10	1941143083
Titel	How Her Spirit Got Out
Autor	Krysten Hill
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Aforementioned Productions
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-12-13
Seitenanzahl	54
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.