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HoodWitch : poems / Faylita Hicks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hicks, Faylita, author.
- Series:
- Acre Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (101 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati, Ohio : Acre, [2019]
- Summary:
- This riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them.HoodWitch tells the story of a young person who discovers that they are "something that can & will survive / a whole century of hunt." Through a series of poems based on childhood.
- Contents:
- Intro
- About the Girl Who Would Become a Gawd
- The First Rite of Water
- Wolf
- Ultra Sounds
- The Birth Mother's Red Bath for Courage
- Photo of a Girl, 1985: Sistah
- Gawd
- Photo of X, 2003: Abstractions
- Photo of a Girl, 1988: Cyborg
- GrackelBot
- My Mother, the Forest
- Photo of a Girl, 1992: Gremlins
- Photo of X, 1997: Something Not Right
- Coded Binaries
- Photo of X, 2004: Fish with Yemayá
- Photo of a Girl, 1994: Gawd
- A Note to My Daughter about Water
- The Second Rite of Flesh
- Photo of a Girl, 1984: Senior Photo
- The Kardashian Curse
- whoever.
- Photo of a Girl, 1991: Hunt
- The Battered Woman's Prayer for Power
- The Fantastic Life of My Guardian Angels
- Photo of a Girl, 1993: Bitch
- Dog Catchers in Texas
- wanted.
- Hex for R. Kelly
- Featuring Tonight at the Street-Hustler's Circus: The Girls
- The Daughters of Samuel Little
- Photo of a Girl, 1995: Training Day
- Concrete Qweens
- Tinder
- Photo of a Girl, 1996: Conjurer
- Photo of X, 2005: What Dreams Are These?
- Collage of a Dying Sun
- The Red Wedding Dress
- My Sister-Wife
- Lazarus
- About My Daughter Who I Gave A Way
- The Third Rite of Smoke
- Li'l Mama Gets High
- A Tale from the Hood
- Kaleidoscope Cracked Wide Open on Fifth and Trinity
- Photo of X, 2010: A Box of Wine
- sandboxes.
- When She Young, Black, &
- Bad
- Saint She of All the Missing Things
- Photo of X, 2011: The Suicide Disease
- murder.
- Graffiti: An American Sonnet for Eric Garner
- Letter to Black Girls
- Year of the Dog
- The Kids Are Gonna Be Alright
- For the White Girl in Poetry Workshop Who Says I Don't Belong Here
- Black Escapism
- All It Took to Get to You
- Photo of X, 2007: HoodWitches
- Notes
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-946724-25-4
- OCLC:
- 1152065478
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