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A More Perfect Union

A More Perfect Union

Cross Davis, Teri Ellen

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Series: The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize

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ISBN10: 081425778X
ISBN13: 9780814257784
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: Feb 10 2021
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Finalist, 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

In the tender, sensual, and bracing poems of a more perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis reclaims the experience of living and mothering while Black in contemporary America, centering Black women's pleasure by wresting it away from the relentless commodification of the White gaze. Cross Davis deploys stunning emotional range to uplift the mundane, interrogate the status quo, and ultimately create her own goddesses. Parenting, lust, household chores--all are fair game for Cross Davis's gimlet eye. Whether honoring her grief for Prince's passing while examining his role in midwifing her sexual awakening or contemplating travel and the gamble of being Black across this wide world, these poems tirelessly seek a path out of the labyrinth to hope.

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