Freedom house : poems / KB Brookins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

KB (Brookins), author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Queer poetry.

Physical Description:

102 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins's formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and Afrofuturism while chronicling their transition and walking readers through different "rooms." The speaker isn't afraid to call themselves out while also bending time, displaying the terror of being Black/queer/trans in Texas, and more-all while using humor and craft. What does freedom look like? What can we learn from nature and our past? How do you reintroduce yourself in a world that refuses queerness? How can we use poetry as a tool in the toolbox that helps build freedom? This collection explores those questions and manifests a world where Black, queer, and trans people get to live"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Stonewall Book Award - Barbara Gittings Literature & Poetry Award, Winner, 2024

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781646052639

1646052633

OCLC:

1338831668

Publisher Number:

99994311185