Gumbo ya ya
Title:
Gumbo ya ya
Author:
Credits:
Aurielle Marie.
Publication Date(s):
2021
Format:
Books
Physical Description:
viii, 109 pages ; 23 cm.
Series:
Pitt poetry series
Series SCL:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
I. What had happened -- Gxrl gospel i -- Portrait of rage with caution tape and bullhorns -- War strategies for every hood -- I, too, sing america -- No name in the street -- Gxrl gospel ii -- Grxl gospel iii -- Transhistorical for the X in my gxrls -- and Not by sight -- II. The creek behind my childhood home was one of those small heavens -- and What is a heaven without a god to break it -- Some of the men we love are terrorists -- Father-son and holy -- Unholy ghazal -- Yes, I am done with the god of white men -- Grxl gospel iv -- Transhistorical and I observe the Sabbath like a ill verse -- Independent -- Listen -- A poem of failures -- Held like arsenic in each of my kin's mouths -- Cpt or lessons in god-timing -- III. Gumbo ya ya -- IV. Pantoum for aiyana -- Georgia me -- Like a freedom too strange to be conquered -- Thottin on fountain drive -- The world between me is gender -- Transhistorical for the men we love -- File -- Egungun -- Wayward experiments -- This poem is a hex, tread light -- Psalm in which I demand a new name for my kin -- In the event I become some unrecognizable beast.
Description:
"Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking reimagination of the world, one where no Black gxrl dies "by the barrel of the law" or "for loving another Black gxrl." Part familial archival, part map of Black resistance, Gumbo Ya Ya catalogs the wide gamut of Black life at its intersections, with punching cultural commentary and a poetic voice that holds tenderness and sharpness in tandem. It asks us to chew upon both the rich meat and the tough gristle, and in doing so we walk away more whole than we began and thoroughly satisfied."--Provided by publisher
Genre Term(s):
Document ID:
SD_ILS:1728654
Language:
English
