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Alafia Nicole Sessions - Nine Drops of Turpentine, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Nine Drops of Turpentine

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Av Alafia Nicole Sessions

Del i serien Georgia Poetry Prize

373 kr

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Steeped in womanism—specifically the reproductive continuum—and alternative, ancestral pathways to healing, Nine Drops of Turpentine weaves matrilineage, motherhood, grief, pleasure, and rites of passage in relation to the body through a Black ecopoetic lens. Written in the aftermath of the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, this powerful collection explores the history of gynecology and its horrors, while critiquing the ethics and care of the modern American birthing system.
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ALAFIA NICOLE SESSIONS is a Black poet, writer, and mother in Atlanta, working as an educator, actress, herbalist, and birthworker. Sessions is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Cave Canem, Yaddo, The Watering Hole, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Georgia Writers Association, and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and was selected by Evie Shockley as the winner of the Furious Flower Prize. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and thrice nominated for Best New Poets, she also received the Howard Moss Residency for poetry. Nine Drops of Turpentine was selected as a finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the Jake Adam York Prize.

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Nine Drops of Turpentine struck me immediately with its music and rhythms, its strange and powerful imagery, and its confidence and belief in the power of language and selfhood. The collection skillfully weaves subjects that range from motherhood, personal history, the body, gender, and race that explode out of their formal containers, which aren’t in place to contain, but rather to resist and subvert. These are dexterous and vibrant poems.

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