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Hood vacations / Michal "MJ" Jones.
Van Pelt Library PS3610.O62744 H66 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Michal (Michal "MJ"), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Black people--Poetry.
- Black people.
- Gender identity--Poetry.
- Gender identity.
- Violence--Poetry.
- Violence.
- African American queer people.
- African American LGBTQ+ people.
- Black queer people.
- Black LGBTQ+ people.
- Non-binary people.
- Queer poetry.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry
- Queer poetry
- Transgender poetry.
- Queer poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 76 pages : portrait ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Black Lawrence Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Michal "MJ" Jones' debut 'Hood Vacations' is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling -- an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional narrative. A nostalgia for an unreachable home permeates these poems: "We were mighty beautiful once, in golden dust." The speaker of 'Hood Vacations' tells of magic: of praying mantises, bathtub octopuses, Black ghosts, & bringing back "rainbow soap colors." It is a book of passing -- as, through, and on. Hop on in"-- Amazon.
- Contents:
- 1. goings. Gone ; At the San Pablo & 34th Ave Filling Station ; And Everything Nice ; Rita's on Stenton ; 1998 ; Invocation ; "That and 52 cents will buy you a cup of coffee." ; Mama's Weight ; In the Wake of a Transfer ; In the Mitten's Jaw ; All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-ATs) ; Praying Mantis ; Jazz Crusaders ; The Summer My Cousin Stops Playing With Me ; Safe Passage ; Golden Oreo ; Palimpsest, Urban ; Popular Poisons ; Praying Mantis Is Remarried ; The Question Is: ; Dove
- 2. channelings. Chambers ; Channelings
- 3. comings. Turnstiles ; Unnamed ; ALIVE: The Simple Acronym That May Save Your Black Child's Life! ; When fam says he could never be Trayvon cuz he knows better ; Embrace ; The cashier has a thing for Black girls ; "I Always Wanted to Bang a Black Boi" ; Compensation ; Record of Birth ; Nature Nurture ; Role Reversal ; Blemish ; Prequel, Saturn's ; What do you encounter in the void? ; Skyward & Yawn ; This Poet ; Touch Me Not ; Incise ; Three Hearts ; Pandemic Ode: A Partial Prayer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references
- ISBN:
- 9781625570444
- 1625570449
- OCLC:
- 1372277397
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