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Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone - Poems (Paperback)
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Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone - Poems (Paperback)
Series: Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
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Loot Price R310
Discovery Miles 3 100
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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.
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