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I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781593767419)
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Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award
Winner of the CHIRBy Award for Poetry
Winner of the BCALA Literary Award Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman's quest for self-discovery--one that pulls her away from the safety of home and into her power I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film The Wiz to explore a Black woman's journey out of the South Side of Chicago and into adulthood. The narrative arc of The Wiz--a tumultuous departure from home, trials designed to reveal new things about the self, and the eventual return home--serves as a loose trajectory for this collection, pulling readers through an abandoned barn, a Wendy's drive-thru, a Beyoncé video, Grandma's house, Sunday service, and the corner store. At every stop, the speaker is made to confront her womanhood, her sexuality, the visibility of her body, alcoholism in her family, and various ways in which narratives are imposed on her. Subverting monolithic ideas about the South Side of Chicago, and re-casting the city as a living, breathing entity, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times spans sestinas, sonnets, free-verse, and erasures, all to reimagine the concept of home. Chicago isn't just a city, but a teacher, a lingering shadow, a way of seeing the world.
Author: Taylor Byas
ISBN-10: 1593767412
ISBN-13: 9781593767419
Publisher: Soft Skull
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2023
Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award
Winner of the CHIRBy Award for Poetry
Winner of the BCALA Literary Award Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman's quest for self-discovery--one that pulls her away from the safety of home and into her power I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film The Wiz to explore a Black woman's journey out of the South Side of Chicago and into adulthood. The narrative arc of The Wiz--a tumultuous departure from home, trials designed to reveal new things about the self, and the eventual return home--serves as a loose trajectory for this collection, pulling readers through an abandoned barn, a Wendy's drive-thru, a Beyoncé video, Grandma's house, Sunday service, and the corner store. At every stop, the speaker is made to confront her womanhood, her sexuality, the visibility of her body, alcoholism in her family, and various ways in which narratives are imposed on her. Subverting monolithic ideas about the South Side of Chicago, and re-casting the city as a living, breathing entity, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times spans sestinas, sonnets, free-verse, and erasures, all to reimagine the concept of home. Chicago isn't just a city, but a teacher, a lingering shadow, a way of seeing the world.
Author: Taylor Byas
ISBN-10: 1593767412
ISBN-13: 9781593767419
Publisher: Soft Skull
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2023
By Taylor Byas
xTaylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the 1st place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contests, and the 2021 Adrienne Rich Poetry Prize. She is the author of the chapbooks Bloodwarm and Shutter.
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