Black Girl, Call Home
(Sprache: Englisch)
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A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine Time Vogue Vulture Essence Elle Cosmopolitan Real Simple Marie Claire Refinery 29 Shondaland Pop Sugar Bustle Reader's Digest Nothing short of sublime, and the territory [Mans'] explores...couldn t be more necessary. Vogue
From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity.
With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself and us home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman.
Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.
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Bald-headed cabbage patchain't got no hair in the back.
Bald-headed skittle diddle
ain't got no hair in the middle
I Ain't Gon' Be Bald-Headed No More
I wore these braids for two
whoooole months, and tonight
Momma gonna wash my hair
when she gets off work at 7 p.m.
It's longer than it was before,
and when I wear it out at school,
the rest of the girls
won't call me bald-headed
no more.
Imma be pretty,
as soon as momma gets home
from work.
Momma Has a Hair Salon in the Kitchen
Wash
Barrettes
Twists
Crisscross
Braids
Beads
Cornrows
Wooden brush
Edges
Silk scarf
Nappy
Kitchen
Beady beads
4c
Coil
Ouch
SuperGrow
Straighten
Burn
Breakage
Drip dry
Split
Crunch
Grow
Cut
4a
Yakky
Bundle
Bleach
Chop
Short
Dye
Curl
Slick
toothbrush
Damage
Afro
Roller
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set
Shrinking
Ugly
Long
Thin
Thinning
Thinner
Weave
Heat
Press
Hot comb
No edges
Toothbrush
Nigga naps
Sheen
Spritz
Dryer
"Hold ya head still!"
Deep conditioning
Pretty
Bleach
Vaseline
Shrunk
Burn
Breakage
"Don't make me pop you!"
Scalp
Fine
Just For Me
Poison
Natural
Pressed
Dry
Damage
Edges
Trim
"Be still"
"Hold your ear."
Momma prays
like she's talking over God,
and if God were to talk back
she wouldn't even hear Him.
That Was Her Way of Showing God
We didn't go to church on Sundays,
but my mother cleaned
the whole house.
Wiped from behind the toilet-
to inside of the oven.
That was her way
of honoring God.
Separating cloth
by color,
making sure
nothing bled,
onto anything else,
stretching pork
across seven days,
because even poverty
knows ritual.
Baptizing Black babies
in bathtubs
of hand-me-down water,
one, after
another.
A poor woman's tradition,
but of its own abundance.
That was her way of showing God
that she had a servant's heart,
that she was a good woman,
with all of the little
she had.
Macaroni and Cheese
"Macaroni and cheese,"
my mother says,
". . . is all about pattern,"
and how well
you can harden the edges
without burning them.
Ma could count a teaspoon
with the lines on her palms,
could measure an ocean
and tell you how long it would take
to bring it to a slow boil.
She'd say
the women in our family
grated their own cheeses
bought their greens fresh
from the h
Shrinking
Ugly
Long
Thin
Thinning
Thinner
Weave
Heat
Press
Hot comb
No edges
Toothbrush
Nigga naps
Sheen
Spritz
Dryer
"Hold ya head still!"
Deep conditioning
Pretty
Bleach
Vaseline
Shrunk
Burn
Breakage
"Don't make me pop you!"
Scalp
Fine
Just For Me
Poison
Natural
Pressed
Dry
Damage
Edges
Trim
"Be still"
"Hold your ear."
Momma prays
like she's talking over God,
and if God were to talk back
she wouldn't even hear Him.
That Was Her Way of Showing God
We didn't go to church on Sundays,
but my mother cleaned
the whole house.
Wiped from behind the toilet-
to inside of the oven.
That was her way
of honoring God.
Separating cloth
by color,
making sure
nothing bled,
onto anything else,
stretching pork
across seven days,
because even poverty
knows ritual.
Baptizing Black babies
in bathtubs
of hand-me-down water,
one, after
another.
A poor woman's tradition,
but of its own abundance.
That was her way of showing God
that she had a servant's heart,
that she was a good woman,
with all of the little
she had.
Macaroni and Cheese
"Macaroni and cheese,"
my mother says,
". . . is all about pattern,"
and how well
you can harden the edges
without burning them.
Ma could count a teaspoon
with the lines on her palms,
could measure an ocean
and tell you how long it would take
to bring it to a slow boil.
She'd say
the women in our family
grated their own cheeses
bought their greens fresh
from the h
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Autoren-Porträt von Jasmine Mans
Jasmine Mans is a Black American poet, artist from Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison, with a B.A. in African American Studies. Her debut collection of poetry, Chalk Outlines of Snow Angels, was published in 2012. Mans is the resident poet at the Newark Public Library. She was a member of The Strivers Row Collective.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jasmine Mans
- 2021, 256 Seiten, Maße: 12,7 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Berkley
- ISBN-10: 0593197143
- ISBN-13: 9780593197141
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.03.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Lyrical, vivid. Time
Each poem is a meditation on a moment, a memory, and a history that guides the reader through the experience of Black womanhood in a way I ve not experienced before. These poems both explode and glimmer on the page. They demand to be read, to be shared, to be revisited time and time again.
Clint Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed
[Mans ] lucid and lyrical lines are as undeniable as those of a pop song yet as arresting as only spoken word artistry can be.
O, the Oprah Magazine
You are carrying in your hands a Black woman s heart.
Jericho Brown, author of Pulitzer Prize winner The Tradition
Read it in a day. Arresting. Beautiful language. Thoughtful examination of girlhood, Blackness, & queer identity. Bought a 2nd copy specifically for loaning out to friends. It s that good! Read it!
New York Times bestselling author Phoebe Robinson
"A tender distillation of black girlhood. Mans draws together both intricate adornment and the unvarnished truth.
Raven Leilani, New York Times bestselling author of Luster
Mans takes up the tools of Brooks and Sanchez into her good hands and chisels us an urgent and grand work, proving why she s the favorite poet of all the girls in the back of the bus.
Danez Smith, author of National Book Award finalist for poetry Don't Call Us Dead
This book is a haven for all the Black daughters out there, hoping to make sense of the power and powerlessness in their bodies, the connection to others' bodies, and the moments of everyday life that comprise so much of our identities.
Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing
Spoken-word poet Jasmine Mans s gift with words is nothing short of sublime, and the territory she explores in this poetry collection from waiting for her mother to get home from work and do her hair as a
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child in Newark to coming into her full as a young, queer Black woman couldn t be more necessary.
Vogue
The collection is so steeped with tenderness, it feels intimate and wholly relatable.
Maisy Card, author of These Ghosts Are Family
In a deft and breathtaking portrayal of identity, race, sexuality, family, and feminism, spoken-word poet Jasmine Mans explores the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman in America.
Marie Claire
Mans is the kind of poignant writer who gives voice to the voiceless and reminds us about the need to care for others.
Shondaland
Gorgeously precise a timely and powerful book.
Publishers Weekly
If your grandmother has ever surprised you by bopping along to trap music at a cookout you will love Jasmine Mans work.
Essence
Delving into heartbreak, community, family, race, queer identity, sexual violence, feminism, and celebrity, Mans' poems are startling and unforgettable.
Booklist
Jasmine Mans pulls at all the threads of who she is as a Black queer woman from Newark, unravels herself, then puts herself back together via clear, precise language that brooks no argument Black Girl, Call Home moves from vignette to cultural criticism to ballad to eulogy to memoir with grace.
Vulture
"Mans story feels universal in so many ways."
Real Simple
Writing in surefooted verse, Mans refuses to allow our stories to be misunderstood.
Dr. Alysia Harris, Pushcart nominated author of How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars
"This might be your introduction to Jasmine but it won t be the last time you read her."
Medium
Vogue
The collection is so steeped with tenderness, it feels intimate and wholly relatable.
Maisy Card, author of These Ghosts Are Family
In a deft and breathtaking portrayal of identity, race, sexuality, family, and feminism, spoken-word poet Jasmine Mans explores the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman in America.
Marie Claire
Mans is the kind of poignant writer who gives voice to the voiceless and reminds us about the need to care for others.
Shondaland
Gorgeously precise a timely and powerful book.
Publishers Weekly
If your grandmother has ever surprised you by bopping along to trap music at a cookout you will love Jasmine Mans work.
Essence
Delving into heartbreak, community, family, race, queer identity, sexual violence, feminism, and celebrity, Mans' poems are startling and unforgettable.
Booklist
Jasmine Mans pulls at all the threads of who she is as a Black queer woman from Newark, unravels herself, then puts herself back together via clear, precise language that brooks no argument Black Girl, Call Home moves from vignette to cultural criticism to ballad to eulogy to memoir with grace.
Vulture
"Mans story feels universal in so many ways."
Real Simple
Writing in surefooted verse, Mans refuses to allow our stories to be misunderstood.
Dr. Alysia Harris, Pushcart nominated author of How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars
"This might be your introduction to Jasmine but it won t be the last time you read her."
Medium
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