kvmmania.blogg.se

Yet the beauty of Black Girl Magic lies in its defiance of that narrative pushed by patriarchal white supremacy." In a world that seems hell bent on the degradation of Black women and girls, hope can often seem like an unattainable luxury. "Black Girl Magic features more than 60 writers using vivid imagery and crackling language to embrace their vulnerabilities and push against stereotypes that erase Black women's lived experiences, instead honoring the richly variant forms and stories of Black womanhood. "This anthology celebrates the works of Black women from all corners of the diaspora, exploring themes of beauty, unapologetic blackness, intersectionality, self-definition, and more." "The poems in the collection, influenced by the rhythms, lyricism, and expressiveness of hip-hop music and culture, speak to the many dimensions of black womanhood."

Publisher: Haymarket Books ISBN: 9781642591064 Number of pages: 264 Weight: 567 g Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm MEDIA REVIEWS She is the 2014 winner of the Crab Creek Review poetry contest, and a New York Foundation for the Arts and Commonwealth Short Story Award Finalist. Her work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, The Caribbean Writer, Fourteen Hills Press, and elsewhere. Idrissa Simmonds is a fiction writer and poet. She directs the poetry program of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Browne is a Cave Canem and Poets House alumna and the author of several books including Smudge and Redbone. Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, much of her writing explores blackness, womanhood, and the city of Chicago.

Poet and vocalist Jamila Woods was raised in Chicago, and graduated from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Africana Studies and Theatre & Performance Studies. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys' club, and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form. " one of the most diverse and important poetry anthologies of the last 25 years."-Latino Rebelsīlack Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today.