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Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone: Poems
・ISBN 978-0-8101-4019-6 paper US$ 9.95
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| 著者・編者 | Nurse, Thiahera, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize) |
| 出版社 | (Northwestern University Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2019 |
| ページ数 | 40 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A00-20045＞ |
解説
Thiahera Nurse's Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone works as ode and requiem to document the precious narratives held inside the body of a black girl. Opening with declarations of self-love, beauty, eulogy, and Lil' Kim rapping in the rain, the landscape of Nurse's poetry functions equally as underworld and imagined heaven.
Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone sees Renisha McBride, Sandra Bland, Korrynn Gaines, and others not as ornamental nor does the book attempt to canonize the dead women as saints. The poems see them as they are: play-cousins, home-girls, the mirror. Line to line, there is an obsession with keeping all of the women in the poems safe and perhaps resurrectable. The black girl who is alive here lives to switch her waistline to a reggae beat. She is in the middle of the dance floor with a suicide note in her purse as a means of warding off bad juju. Always, she is chasing joy head-on, at warp speed.
Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone is a celebration that the black girl will always dance, in the church basement, a grandmother's funeral repast-she dances until she hits the floor, in her joy . . . and her grief.
Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone sees Renisha McBride, Sandra Bland, Korrynn Gaines, and others not as ornamental nor does the book attempt to canonize the dead women as saints. The poems see them as they are: play-cousins, home-girls, the mirror. Line to line, there is an obsession with keeping all of the women in the poems safe and perhaps resurrectable. The black girl who is alive here lives to switch her waistline to a reggae beat. She is in the middle of the dance floor with a suicide note in her purse as a means of warding off bad juju. Always, she is chasing joy head-on, at warp speed.
Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone is a celebration that the black girl will always dance, in the church basement, a grandmother's funeral repast-she dances until she hits the floor, in her joy . . . and her grief.