From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and historical look at the experience of Black girlhood. In the American imagination the contrasts between visibility and invisibility for Black girlhood are glaring.
Poetry
Through themes of domestic abuse, the death of a parent, the loss of a friend, and the search for cultural identity, the poems in Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House transcend the borders of language and nation-states.
The poems in A Field of First Things are evocations of experience, attempts to clarify, preserve, and share first things.