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Song of my softening
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"A profound and intersectional text, Song of My Softening is a queer, fat, love song of the interior. Poems study the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relations...
"A profound and intersectional text, Song of My Softening is a queer, fat, love song of the interior. Poems study the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. This book is a window into what perseverance looks like, ungilded, a mirror for anyone born into a culture outside of their identity, who has survived alienation, violation, depression, and systematized oppression. Unspoken truths about the body and soul are mused with openness, candor, and tenderness"--
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- Creator
- Omotara James
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- Language
- English
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- New Gloucester, Maine : Alice James Books, [2024]
- ©2024
- Physical Details
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- 138 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1948579243, 9781948579483, 1948579480, 9781948579247
- OCLC
- on1267687109
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Part One: the sacrifice. I. Brass. Having no grief to speak of - Half girl, then elegy - Twice a month on Sundays with Maxine, my tender head and the truth - Autobiography of Thud - Untouched - My father remark that I prioritize my Nigerian heritage over my Caribbean side - Wall - Haircut - Markers - Ceremony - Promise - Things | I know to be true, | but will never prove - My mother's nerves are shot - More - Proverb - a little tenderness - First kiss under capitalism - Ice sculpture - Mama Wata - Whereas - On repetition - Moose | Leaving Philadelphia - Rufus, I never met you, but I want to tell you - Dissociation in a time of cuffing season - Equilibrium as the day after - Bang and a whimper - II. String. A mother can see more sitting down than a child standing up -- Homosexual - Triolet - Exhibition of the queered woman - The butcher: a love poem - Sonnet of the bull - While cliffs of Dover - Fruit flies - Mirror talk - Shame - Morbid subtraction - Heaven be a sturdy chair - The only rooms I occupy | are empty - When I said I had Obamacare, what I meant was Medicaid - Biopsy - You are not brave: a female utterance - Closure - You call Ky in the middle of the night, -- In lieu of ode - The good news - I am resistant to trust - Proper fat - A flair for language - Moving to Brooklyn during the peak of a pandemic - Three women | Two transfers and a token | One reincarnation - Part two: The feast. I. Drum. Said sorrow to joy - Bodies like oceans - Poem to watch over you - Tides - Pier 52 - Black art sonnet in which lines were shuffled and glued - Portrait to an uncaged child on Easter - Tripartite - What we leave undone - Ars diaspora with drinking gourd - To the mother of the boy found floating asleep on the lake - Ode to extinction - II. Wind. Got 'til it's gone - Body image - Museum of what is owed - Mixed media portrait with hard subjects and my mother's soft tendencies - Black woman gets a message: has discourse with God - After the last calorie of the Apocalypse | Prayer for the clinically obese - Direct objects - Allahu Akbar: | for my body | under the rule | of white supremacy - Notebook full of thirst for the New Year - Poem to the body - Trash day - Flower embroidery / Womxn's work - When I dream of escape, -- Found God poem - III. Piano. Dark hallelujah - Kiese says, black people deserve beautiful sentences, but a fragment is the best I can do / Songbook for the names I have been called - Dear reader, -- Last days of summer - Constraint - Self-portrait as a queer block party