All the blood involved in love / Maya Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Maya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

African American families--Poetry.

African American families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2022]

Summary:

All the Blood Involved in Love enters the world as the US continues its dramatic fights over reproductive rights.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

I

"Why Don't You Parent a Little?"

Long Live the Queen

Some Thoughts on Sons in the Winter of My Child-Bearing Years

Daddy on the Sofa

Baptism

Eviction

Musing on Lilith Lost to Time

Lavender Menace Considers Adoption

Portrait in the Lone Star

Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae

II

For Dawn Wooten

An Abortion Ban

Self-Portrait as an Atlas Moth at the Bar

Anatomy of a Fish Hook

The Field of Blood

Why I Meant It When I Said I Didn't Want Kids While You, Wanting Them and Me, Insisted I Did

The Disappearing Field

To Deliver All Stillborn Safely

Lavender Menace Adopts a Black Boy

Lavender Menace Considers the Lovers in the Photograph

III

American Girl Moves

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"Praise the Lord for all dead things

Self-Portrait as an Octopus

Port of Entry

Girl Born with Cleft Palate Turns Ten, Divines for Water in Her Backyard

Mockingbird

Sunday Morning

Girl Secrets in Her Own Cocoon

Recovery

Caregiving

I Take Myself for Walks

Dear Father,

The Big Water

Acknowledgments

Gratitude

Notes

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781642597226

1642597228

OCLC:

1313891961