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"The latest from Vivek Shraya's VS. Books: a poetic exploration of Black identity, history, and lived experience influenced by the constant search for liberation. In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in personal history to expose the legacy of colonization and its impact on Black bodies. They use poetry to illuminate their activist work: exposing racism, especially anti-Blackness, and helping people see the connections between history and systemic oppression that show up in every human interaction, space, and community. Their poems demonstrate how the world is both beautiful and cruel, a truth that inspires overwhelming anger and awe--all of which spills out onto the page to tell the story of a challenging, complex, nuanced, and joyful life. In Burning Sugar, verse and epistolary, racism and resilience, pain and precarity are flawlessly sewn together by the mighty hands of a Black, queer femme. This book is the second title to be published under the VS. Books imprint, a series curated and edited by writer-musician Vivek Shraya, featuring work by new and emerging Indigenous or Black writers, or writers of colour."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Divided into three sections, these are snippets of a Black, queer, femme finding/making her place in the world. Place takes us through cities/states/regions of the poet's life, what she found/learned/lost in each place, with a chaotic mix of joy, pain, humor, and introspection. In Art she recounts growing up with an artist for a mother, trawling galleries in Europe on weekends. The poems address artists and specific works, they address white supremacy in the art world and how it affects how Black art is displayed, received, consumed. Finally Child moves back and forth in time, navigating family and identity, the wounds of absence, of racism, sexism, and homophobia. But Blain is bold in reclaiming trust and love and self-worth.
Raw and powerful. ( )