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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Bitches Brew

Bitches Brew

Washington, Safiya

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 173754900X
ISBN13: 9781737549000
Publisher: Black Minds Publishing
Published: Oct 21 2022
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Bitches Brew is a collection of poems that explore coming of age, intimacy, self-love, and the existence that is Black girlhood/womanhood all through the lens of an Ifa practitioner that has learned to call both Philly and Brooklyn home. This book touches on the intergenerational lessons, the lessons we tell our sisters and best friends and the things we see that we don't think will latch onto who we become. I can feel the lineage of Brooks and Shange in the wrought lyricism of Safiya Washington's debut collection, Bitches Brew. I love how these poems bloom through their sharp-yet-tender imagery as the reader is guided through the desires, dangers, and deliverances of Black girlhood. I was moved by the percussive explorations of intimacy, self-love, and Blackexistence. It stands as its own soundtrack; a beautiful tribute to an indefatigable and divine life.- Shakeema Smalls Reading ...Brew was like holding up a mirror in poetry form. Safiya's truth is such a reflection of my own, I felt not only seen but also cared for as I turned each page. Her writing is as tender as it is brave, balancing blunt transparency and intentional privacy. Prepare to have your own magic awakened as you partake in the Brew. - Ashlee Haze From the moment Bitches Brew opens its mouth to speak, we are spun into a capsuled experience of bladed heartscapes, sung by the shared lung of a multitude. Safiya Washington's masterful lyricism crafts a vessel of itself, as the poems unravel along their diasporic montage and a playlist of erasure spills us into the language of emotional trap doors. Ending in a net of familiar hands, this debut is both grimoire for 00's black daughterhood and altar for love's lineage. All due praise to the delegated voice of one of this generation's most significant griots. - Kush Thompson

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