Magic enuff : poems / Tara M. Stringfellow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stringfellow, Tara M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Survival.

Femininity.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 85 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Magic enough

Place of Publication:

New York : The Dial Press, 2024.

Summary:

"An electrifying collection of poems that tells a universal tale of survival and revolution through the lens of Black femininity. Tara M. Stringfellow embraces complexity, grappling with the sometimes painful, sometimes wonderful way two conflicting things can be true at the same time. How it's possible to have a strong voice and also feel silenced. To be loyal to things and people that betray us. To burn as hot with rage as we do with love. Each poem asks how we can heal and sustain relationships with people, systems, and ourselves. How to reach for the kind of real love that allows for the truth of anger, disappointment, and grief. Unapologetic, unafraid, and glorious in its nuance, this collection argues that when it comes to living in our full humanity, we have-and we are-magic enough"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Picking

Origins

Hot Combs Catfish Crumbs and Bad Men

Only Read from Exodus

To White Folk

This Woman

Black Boys

Conversations I Never Had with My Father

For Trayvon's Mother

The Whole Sick Mess

Joan

To Miss Gianna Floyd

Philando

I Dreamt the KKK Were in My Living Room

Dear Tupac

To Kanye

For Harriet

On Witnessing a Stabbing in Overton Park, Memphis, TN

Me, Receiving My First Period

My Mother, Receiving Her Last Period

That One Time My College Boyfriend Hit Me

I Couldn't Find This in the Bible

Dreams

A Poem for Black Girls in Their Twenties

Poem at 30

Poem at 35

Nola vs. Memphis

Kristen

On Contemplating Leaving My White Husband

My Ex-Husband

Sundays

In Yo Life

The Day of My Divorce

Mary, Did You Have a Choice?

Love Haiku

In My Godmother's Garden

Picking No. 2

We Are Accused

Agony

A Sonnet

Dinner Prep

Poem at Midnight

Tired Black Woman

I Don't Know Why

For My Ex

A Black Woman's Heart

Maybe

Route to Freedom

To the Cynic.

Notes:

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Best Poetry Award, Winner, 2025

Other Format:

Online version: Stringfellow, Tara M. Magic enuff

ISBN:

9780593447437

0593447433

OCLC:

1401655431