Patricia Frazier’s Graphite is an ode to her grandmother and childhood home, the Ida B. Wells Projects, both which the poet lost to city- and state-sanctioned discrimination. The chapbook investigates loss and gentrification, particularly their effects on black young people from Chicago, whose political movement, resilience, and ability to make celebration after pain, drive these poems.
- ISBN10 1642590002
- ISBN13 9781642590005
- Publish Date 31 July 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Haymarket Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 44
- Language English