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Gumbo YA YA: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822966661)
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xWinner, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual PoetryWinner, 2022 Georgia Author of the Year (Poetry)Finalist, 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
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.
Author: Aurielle Marie
ISBN-10: 0822966662
ISBN-13: 9780822966661
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2021
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.82h x 6.77w x 0.39d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/01/2021 pg. 12
Library Journal 11/01/2021 pg. 91
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.
Author: Aurielle Marie
ISBN-10: 0822966662
ISBN-13: 9780822966661
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2021
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.82h x 6.77w x 0.39d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/01/2021 pg. 12
Library Journal 11/01/2021 pg. 91
By Aurielle Marie
xAurielle Marie is a Black and queer essayist, poet, and cultural strategist hailing from the Deep South. A 2019 Ploughshares Emerging Writer award recipient, she's received invitations to fellowships from many literary institutions, including Lambda Literary, VONA Voices, and Tin House. Her work is featured in TriQuarterly, Southeast Review, Black Warrior, and other journals. Aurielle Marie writes and speaks about Blackness, bodies, sex, and pop culture from a Black feminist lens.
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