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 |
| Title | How Her Spirit Got Out |
| Author | Krysten Hill |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Aforementioned Productions |
| Year published | 2016-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 54 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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