Negotiations : poems / Destiny O. Birdsong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birdsong, Destiny O., 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century--African American women authors.

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

African American women authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

135 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2020.

Summary:

"What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal publications, about autoimmune disease and the speaker's intense hunger for her own body-a surprise of self-love in the aftermath of both assault and diagnosis. It's a series of love letters to black women, who are often singled out for abuse and assault, silencing and tokenism, fetishization and cultural appropriation in ways that throw the rock, then hide the hand. It is a book about tenderness and an indictment of people and systems that attempt to narrow black women's lives, their power. But it is also an examination of complicity-both a narrative and a black box warning for a particular kind of self-healing that requires recognizing culpability when and where it exists"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Negotiations

I Too Sing America

Harambe For President (2016 Write-In Ballot)

Prime Time

The 400-Meter Heat

Emeritus

Elegy For The Man On Highway 52

The Art Of Cannibalism

Found Art

Ode To My Body

Auto-Immune

Failed Avoidance Of "The Body" In A Poem

Her

Fable

A History Of Dolls

Macular Conception

Spilled Milk

Scope

My Rapist Once Said He Didn't Need Anything From Me

My Rapist Taught Me The Proper Way To Cook Bacon

My Rapist Explained Even The Water Company Gets A Bill

Hypervigilance

Love Poem With Stockholm

Seeing My Rapist Reminds Me There Was No Latin Word For "Volcano"

My Therapist Tells Me I Keep Dating My Mother

Lodestar

The Way I Listen To You Read Poems

Love Poem That Ends At Popeyes

Long Division

Ode To My Penis

Pact

Pandemic

Pickle Goddess

And Though The Odds Say Improbable.

ISBN:

9781951142131

1951142136

OCLC:

1141499475

Publisher Number:

99985813431