Sugar work /
Sugar Work chronicles the complexities of womanhood, race, and gender that arose from growing up around sex work in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Poems investigate beauty and whiteness, the aftermath of sexual trauma on the female body, divorce, desire and art itself. Narrative poems reflect o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farmington, Maine :
Alice James Books,
[2022].
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| Summary: | Sugar Work chronicles the complexities of womanhood, race, and gender that arose from growing up around sex work in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Poems investigate beauty and whiteness, the aftermath of sexual trauma on the female body, divorce, desire and art itself. Narrative poems reflect on female sexuality and self-acceptance after a complex childhood, informing the speaker's ever-changing relationship with love. |
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| Physical Description: | 76 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781948579261 194857926X |