Saida Agostini’s first full-length poetry collection, let the dead, is an exploration of the mythologies that seek to subjugate Black bodies, and the counter-stories that reject such subjugation. Audacious, sensual, and grieving, this work explores how Black women harness the fantastic to craft their own road to freedom. A journey across Guyana, London, and the United States, it is a meditation on black womanhood, queerness, the legacy of colonization, and pleasure. These poems craft a creation story fat with love, queerness, mermaids, and blackness.
- ISBN10 1942892284
- ISBN13 9781942892281
- Publish Date 26 March 2022
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Santa Fe Writer's Project
- Format Paperback
- Pages 68
- Language English