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Bone Language
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9781936919949
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jun 15 2023
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Jamaica Baldwin's poetry debut, Bone Language, is a testament to the specific ways women survive the world and its attacks on their bodies. At the core of this poet's survival is an engagement with a mother/daughter relationship that lives within the shadows of addiction-a love letter to mothers as they are, not as the world has asked them to be. With precision and vulnerability, Baldwin's lyric I, signifies her body and its history as it reckons with loss, misogyny, racism, and desire. I kept answering/your drowned voice with my own, / kept singing along /to our borrowed honey, / kept words, / the dead of women quick / with longing.
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