Gumbo Ya Ya / Aurielle Marie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marie, Aurielle, 1994- author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls, Black--Poetry.

Teenage girls, Black.

African American girls--Poetry.

African American girls.

Race--Poetry.

Race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Notes &amp

Acknowledgments

i

what had happened

gxrl gospel i

portrait of rage with caution tape &amp

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

&amp

not by sight

ii

the creek behind my childhood home was one of those small heavens

what is a heaven without a god to break it

some of the men we love are terrorists

father-son &amp

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

i n d e p e n d e n t

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

filé

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

More Notes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Cave Canem Poetry Prize, 2020.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822988380

0822988380

OCLC:

1263026625