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Gumbo YA YA

Gumbo YA YA

Marie, Aurielle

Paperback

Series: Pitt Poetry

Black American StudiesGeneral PoetryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0822966662
ISBN13: 9780822966661
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Sep 21 2021
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Winner, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Winner, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry Winner, 2022 Georgia Author of the Year (Poetry) Finalist, 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking reimagination of the world, one where no Black gxrl dies by the barrel of the law or for loving another Black gxrl. Part familial archival, part map of Black resistance, Gumbo Ya Ya catalogs the wide gamut of Black life at its intersections, with punching cultural commentary and a poetic voice that holds tenderness and sharpness in tandem. It asks us to chew upon both the rich meat and the tough gristle, and in doing so we walk away more whole than we began and thoroughly satisfied.

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