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Some girls survive on their sorcery alone : poems /

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Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone works between the worlds of ode and elegy to document the consequences and precious narratives held inside of the black girl body.--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nurse, Thiahera (Author)
Other Authors: Gibbons, Reginald (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Series:Drinking gourd chapbook poetry prize.
Subjects:
African Americans > Social conditions > Poetry.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Reginald Gibbons
  • Some girls survive on their sorcery alone
  • In defense of injury : a hex
  • Pain is love
  • Granny Juanita is dead-I come to her funeral wearing a white dress & an overnight diaper
  • Love and water
  • Ode to being late
  • Web
  • Leanna
  • Go with God
  • Mesh
  • Chase does not eat black pussy
  • Slickmouth
  • Raw video footage: a year after the shooting McBride's family asks for peace-Joe Biden holds an ice cream cone
  • The summer we all stayed alive
  • Call a funeral home, or A dead body can't stay in this room overnight, or The first thing we need to do is discard the IV bags
  • Vaughn
  • Flex
  • Hennypalooza.