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Harrowings

Harrowings

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1772014052
ISBN13: 9781772014051
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: Nov 15 2022
Pages: 112
Weight: 3.92
Height: 3.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Set mainly in the rural, HARROWINGS connects with Black intellectual and art history in relation to agriculture. The poems include pulses of memoir from the poet's childhood growing up on a farm, as well as from more recent pandemic experiences volunteering for a local agricultural enterprise led by people who were formerly incarcerated. Considering movements organizing for food security and related, resurgent practices, HARROWINGS also contends with the farm as a tract of colonial advance. Tropes of tradition and supremacy are confronted in this study of biome, plants, and soil. Despite episodic and chronic illness, and by way of practical tasks such as sowing, pruning, and watering, the poetry advances with love towards abolitionist futures.

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