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Gumbo Ya Ya /

"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 gxrlho...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Marie, Aurielle, 1994- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Series:Pitt poetry series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Notes & Acknowledgments
  • i
  • what had happened
  • gxrl gospel i
  • portrait of rage with caution tape & 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
  • & 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 & 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