Electrifying poems exploring America's past and present through themes of race, family, violence, and self-transformation.
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Electrifying poems exploring America's past and present through themes of race, family, violence, and self-transformation.
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A book of electrifying poems by the acclaimed author of Push ("Brutal . . . redemptive"—Newsweek) and American Dreams ( Alive with the emotional honesty and intellectual force for which Sapphire has been admired as both a writer and a performance artist, these forty-seven poems take us into America's past and present, bearing testimony to the black experience in a country fragmented by war, racism, and urban and domestic violence. They tell the story of a search for the complicated spiritu...
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Romance & sex
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Violence & gore
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Poems address war, urban violence, and domestic violence as central themes
Profanity
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Provocative language with emotional honesty and intellectual force
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central exploration of racism, race, and social fragmentation in America
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Domestic violence and systemic suffering in black American experience
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