Breath Better Spent
Download and Read Breath Better Spent full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free Breath Better Spent ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Breath Better Spent
Author | : DaMaris Hill |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2022-01-25 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1635576628 |
Download Breath Better Spent Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A Netgalley "Must-Read Books by Black Authors in 2022" From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and historical look at the experience of Black girlhood. In Breath Better Spent, DaMaris B. Hill hoists her childhood self onto her shoulders, together taking in the landscape of Black girlhood in America. At a time when Black girls across the country are increasingly vulnerable to unjust violence, unwarranted incarceration, and unnoticed disappearance, Hill chooses to celebrate and protect the girl she carries, using the narrative-in-verse style of her acclaimed book A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing to revisit her youth. There, jelly sandals, Double Dutch beats, and chipped nail polish bring the breath of laughter; in adolescence, pomegranate lips, turntables, and love letters to other girls' boyfriends bring the breath of longing. Yet these breaths cannot be taken alone, and as she carries her childhood self through the broader historical space of Black girls in America, Hill is forced to grapple with expression in a space of stereotype, desire in a space of hyper-sexuality, joy in a space of heartache. Paying homage to prominent Black female figures from Zora Neale Hurston to Whitney Houston and Toni Morrison, Breath Better Spent invites you to walk through this landscape, too, exploring the spaces-both visible and invisible-that Black girls occupy in the national imagination, taking in the communal breath of girlhood, and asking yourself: In a country like America, what does active love and protection of Black girls look like?
Breath Better Spent Related Books
Pages: 159
Pages: 242
Pages: 306
Pages: 193
Pages: 241