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- Song of my softening / by James, Omotara,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Part One: the sacrifice. I. Brass. Having no grief to speak of - Half girl, then elegy - Twice a month on Sundays with Maxine, my tender head and the truth - Autobiography of Thud - Untouched - My father remark that I prioritize my Nigerian heritage over my Caribbean side - Wall - Haircut - Markers - Ceremony - Promise - Things | I know to be true, | but will never prove - My mother's nerves are shot - More - Proverb - a little tenderness - First kiss under capitalism - Ice sculpture - Mama Wata - Whereas - On repetition - Moose | Leaving Philadelphia - Rufus, I never met you, but I want to tell you - Dissociation in a time of cuffing season - Equilibrium as the day after - Bang and a whimper - II. String. A mother can see more sitting down than a child standing up -- Homosexual - Triolet - Exhibition of the queered woman - The butcher: a love poem - Sonnet of the bull - While cliffs of Dover - Fruit flies - Mirror talk - Shame - Morbid subtraction - Heaven be a sturdy chair - The only rooms I occupy | are empty - When I said I had Obamacare, what I meant was Medicaid - Biopsy - You are not brave: a female utterance - Closure - You call Ky in the middle of the night, -- In lieu of ode - The good news - I am resistant to trust - Proper fat - A flair for language - Moving to Brooklyn during the peak of a pandemic - Three women | Two transfers and a token | One reincarnation - Part two: The feast. I. Drum. Said sorrow to joy - Bodies like oceans - Poem to watch over you - Tides - Pier 52 - Black art sonnet in which lines were shuffled and glued - Portrait to an uncaged child on Easter - Tripartite - What we leave undone - Ars diaspora with drinking gourd - To the mother of the boy found floating asleep on the lake - Ode to extinction - II. Wind. Got 'til it's gone - Body image - Museum of what is owed - Mixed media portrait with hard subjects and my mother's soft tendencies - Black woman gets a message: has discourse with God - After the last calorie of the Apocalypse | Prayer for the clinically obese - Direct objects - Allahu Akbar: | for my body | under the rule | of white supremacy - Notebook full of thirst for the New Year - Poem to the body - Trash day - Flower embroidery / Womxn's work - When I dream of escape, -- Found God poem - III. Piano. Dark hallelujah - Kiese says, black people deserve beautiful sentences, but a fragment is the best I can do / Songbook for the names I have been called - Dear reader, -- Last days of summer - Constraint - Self-portrait as a queer block party."A profound and intersectional text, Song of My Softening is a queer, fat, love song of the interior. Poems study the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. This book is a window into what perseverance looks like, ungilded, a mirror for anyone born into a culture outside of their identity, who has survived alienation, violation, depression, and systematized oppression. Unspoken truths about the body and soul are mused with openness, candor, and tenderness"--- Subjects: poetry.; Queer poetry.; Poetry.; Poésie.; Poésie queer.; African Americans; Noirs américains;
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- Embodied : an intersectional feminist comics poetry anthology / by Chin-Tanner, Wendy,editor,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)849833; Chin-Tanner, Tyler,editor.(CARDINAL)850607; Oberman, Miller,author.(CARDINAL)887051; Hickman, Rye,artist.(CARDINAL)625502; Seuss, Diane,author.; Kangas, Liana,artist.(CARDINAL)876219; Smith, Maggie,1977-author.(CARDINAL)838360; Borelli, Carola,artist.; Svay, Sokunthary,author.; Heath, Annie,author.(CARDINAL)882442; Casesa, Mia,artist.(CARDINAL)882443; Givhan, Jennifer,author.(CARDINAL)791937; Woolley, Sara,artist.(CARDINAL)611509; Allen, Kenzie,author.(CARDINAL)882446; Alvitre, Weshoyot,artist.(CARDINAL)792300; Hagood, Caroline,author.; Stelladia,artist.(CARDINAL)882448; Howard, JP,author.; Lee, Soo,artist.(CARDINAL)849751; Dentz, Shira,author.(CARDINAL)870423; Lynn, Jessica,artist.(CARDINAL)876126; Queen, Khadijah,author.(CARDINAL)857342; Woods, Ashley A.,artist.(CARDINAL)676293; Xiong, Khaty,author.; Beem, Morgan,artist.(CARDINAL)680114; James, Omotara,author.; Simav, Aysegul,artist.; Candrilli, Kayleb Rae,author.; Newlevant, Hazel,artist.(CARDINAL)598514; Awad, Ruth,author.; Pearson, Emily R.,artist.; Ebeid, Caroline,author.; Cresta, Marika,artist.(CARDINAL)795617; Hinton, Laura,author.; Rowena, Kaylee,artist.; Tran, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)882037; Vigants, Jude,artist.; DeColo, Kendra,author.; Barnett, Ned(Comics artist),artist.(CARDINAL)892316; Thrash, Venus,author.(CARDINAL)856902; Sanders, Y.,artist.; Konchan, Virginia,author.(CARDINAL)857448; Marie, Takeia,artist.; Villarreal, Vanessa Angélica,author.(CARDINAL)887057; Garcia, Ronnie,artist.; Ben-Oni, Rosebud,author.; Burton, Rio,artist.; Chin-Tanner, Wendy,author.(CARDINAL)849833; Lasko-Gross,Miss,artist.(CARDINAL)554056;
"A unique collection of intersectional feminist poetry-in-comics, a collaboration between cis female, trans, and non-binary poets and comics artists"--"Collaboration between cis female, trans, and non-binary poets and comics artists"--Page 4 of cover.- Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Poetry.; Feminism; Women; Sexual minorities; Intersectionality (Sociology); Feminism; Women; Feminism.; Women's movement.; Women.; Womyn.; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.; Intersectionality.;
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- Mouths of rain : an anthology of Black lesbian thought / by Jones, Briona Simone,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references."A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of Fire"--Foreword: We won't stop the rain / Cheryl Clarke -- Mouths of rain: Be opened / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Introduction: No hand, no gaze / Briona Simone Jones -- Part I: Uses of the erotic, 1909-2020 -- Ma Rainey -- Cheryl Clarke -- Red Jordan Arobateau -- You! Inez! / Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Can it be? / Alice Walker -- A Mona Lisa / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Love poem / Audre Lorde -- Woman / Audre Lorde -- Uses of the erotic: The erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- Kittatinny / Cheryl Clarke -- B.D. Woman's Blues / Lucille Bogan -- Finer with time / Michelle Parkerson -- Jambula Tree / Monica Arac de Nyeko -- Metamorphosis / Pat Parker -- My lover is a woman / Pat Parker -- Sunshine / Pat Parker -- Celebrant / Terri Jewell -- Part II: Interlocking oppressions and identity politics, 1980-2020 -- Audre Lorde -- Barbara Smith -- Three for the price of one: notes from a gay, Black feminist / Anita Cornwell -- A meeting of the sapphic daughters / Ann Allen Shockley -- To be an orphan inside of ٢blackness٣ / Dawn Lundy Martin -- Ain't I a woman? / Kai Davis -- Not feminine as in straight, but Femme as in queer #AF: The queer & black roots of my femme expression / experience / Kaila Story -- Wolfpack / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan -- We are here / Pamela Sneed -- Part III: Coming out and stepping into, 1978-2020 -- Catherine E. McKinley and L. Joyce Delaney -- Lisa C. Moore -- The wedding / Beverly Smith -- poem from No Language Is Neutral / Dionne Brand -- Angelina Weld Grimke: (1880-1958) / Akasha Gloria Hull-- aubade, in pieces, for my ex-lovers / JP Howard -- Black Butch Woman / Janae Johnson -- Curtain 1983 / Jewelle Gomez -- Notes on speechlessness / Michelle Cliff -- Living single / Moya Bailey -- funny / Pat Parker -- Part IV: The sacred, 1970-2020 -- M. Jacqui Alexander -- Omotara James -- Interspecies / Alexis De Veaux -- her relationship to Africa lives in the part of her that is eight years / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Black Pearl: A poetic drama for four voices / Arisa White -- How to make art / Cheryl Boyce-Taylor -- Erzulie-Oshun (Georgia style) / doris diosa davenport -- Without name / Pauli Murray -- Fighting racism: An approach through ritual / SDiane Bogus -- Sangodare Akinwale / Anew -- excerpt from love conjure / blues / Sharon Bridgforth -- Part V: Radical futurities, 1976-2020 -- Barbara Jordan -- Demita Frazier -- Charlene A. Carruthers -- The Shape of my impact / Alexis Pauline Gums -- I am your sister: Black women organizing across sexualities / Audre Lorde -- Towards a Black feminist criticism -- A ratchet lens: Black queer youth, agency, hip hop, and the Black ratchet imagination -- Deviance as resistance: A new research agenda for the study of Black politics / Cathy J. Cohen -- Never mind the misery / Where's the magic / doris diosa davenport -- At another crossroads / Kate Rushin -- The myth and tradition of the Black bulldagger / SDiane Bogus -- Play aunties and dyke bitches: gender, generation, and the ethics of Black queer kinship -- Archiving Black lesbians in practice: The Salsa Soul Sisters Archival Collection / Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz -- More than human: Black feminisms of the future in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories.- Subjects: Literature.; African American lesbians; African American lesbians; American literature; American literature; Lesbians' writings, American.; American literature; American literature; African American lesbians.;
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