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Honeyfish (Paperback)
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Honeyfish (Paperback)
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List price R416
Loot Price R342
Discovery Miles 3 420
You Save R74 (18%)
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"These poems love. Prophesize. Return us to our beginnings. To days
that we want to remember. Or forget. But don't. Thus in our
sister's memory, we survive in the luxury of dying. The courage of
loving. The re-imagining of our souls for another generation. Thank
you, my dear sister for your words saluting our living, our lives."
--Sonia Sanchez, winner of the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Academy of American Poets "In exquisitely crafted poems of
heart-accelerating candor and clarity, Lauren K. Alleyne says to
all the black bodies slain by hatred and militarized fear, 'Nothing
I say will save you, but how can I say nothing?' Honeyfish is an
elegy for all the countless lost, and a praise song for the many
black lives that persist in their wish to give and receive love."
-- Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States of America
"Even in the places we think of as most beautiful, the endless gong
of the body being broken and defiled will find us. How can we see
the sun and the ocean and the clear blue sky as anything other than
a kind of cruel joke in the face of so much suffering? The
extraordinary gift of Lauren K Alleyne's, Honeyfish is that she
shows the world in all its brutality and loss and somehow lets us
mourn within the poems, which in turn allows us to begin some kind
of healing. These are poems whose elegy is ongoing, whose elegy
need never happened but for hatred. The waves go in and out and so
many people keep being killed. And here is this extraordinary poet,
making a heaven that is freedom, that is the dream of being
welcomed and loved and tended to. This is a book for our times and
for the day when these times are over and we can rejoice." --
Gabrielle Calvacoressi, author of Rocket Fantastic
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