We Were All Someone Else Yesterday - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Were All Someone Else Yesterday write by Omar Holmon. This book was released on 2020-05-12. We Were All Someone Else Yesterday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A hybrid text that deals most urgently in the articulation of growth and grief. After the loss of his mother, Omar Holmon re-learns how to live by immersing himself in popular culture, becoming well-versed in using the many modes of pop culture to spell out his emotions. This book is made up of both poems and essays, drenched in both sadness and unmistakable humor. Teeming with references that are touchable, no matter what you do or don’t know, this book feels warm and inviting.
Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair
Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair write by William Evans. This book was released on 2017-10-17. Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair is the latest book by author William Evans, founder of Black Nerd Problems. Evans is a long-standing voice in the performance poetry scene, who has performed at venues across the country and been featured on numerous final stages, including the National Poetry Slam and Individual World Poetry Slam. Evans's commanding, confident style shines through in these poems, which explore masculinity, fatherhood, and family, and what it means to make a home as a black man in contemporary America.
Autopsy
Autopsy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Autopsy write by Donte Collins. This book was released on 2017-07-06. Autopsy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written after the death of his mother, Donte Collins’s Autopsy establishes the poet as one of the most important voices in the next generation of American poetry. As the book unfolds, the reader journeys alongside the author through grief and healing. Named the Most Promising Young Poet in the country by the Academy of American Poets, Collins's work has consistently wowed audiences. Autopsy propels that work onto the national stage. In the words of the author, the book is a spring thaw -- the new life alongside the old, the good cry and the release after.
Ain’t Never Not Been Black
Ain’t Never Not Been Black - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ain’t Never Not Been Black write by Javon Johnson. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Ain’t Never Not Been Black available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2021 Midwest Book Award Finalist 2021 In The Margins Book Awards - Nonfiction Recommendation List Ain't Never Not Been Black foregrounds Black pleasure Black pain and Black love in unflinchingly Black ways. Engaging with themes of masculinity, racism, love, and joy, Johnson is at once critical and creative. His spoken word performance transfers effortlessly to the page, with poems that will encompass you. This is a book about blackness and survival, and how in America these are inseparable. In a world of individualism, who can you hold close? In a world of danger, what makes you feel safe? From a poem written in the form of a syllabus, to another about the time his grandmother literally saved his life, Johnson's creative expression is constantly enacting the feminist mantra, “the personal is political."
Patricide
Patricide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Patricide write by Dave Harris. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Patricide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dave Harris's stellar debut takes a nuanced look at the complexities of black masculinity. Patricide weighs those complexities and how they impact a lineage of black boys who fight to become men in the image of their fathers. More than just a book about fear or death centered on being black in America, Patricide illuminates the internal struggle to be the best man possible with the shadow of other men at your back. Through poems on loss, music, college, and family strife, Harris examines how time shifts and changes, despite so much of a life’s architecture staying the same. Ultimately, Patricide opens itself up to reveal a story of many threads, one that finds a way to tie together in unexpected and joyful ways.
