The Poetic Transitions from a Hot Head to a Conscious Queen
by Shakkoi Hibbert
Every time someone would say to me: "But you have such a pretty face" I would cringe and think: But what about the REST of me? "But you have such a pretty face" tells my story through a series of 43 poems. I wrote about my childhood in Morristown, TN (Home, Ella's tambourine, That Time When my Brother Jerome was Evel Kneivel), marriage (Before dawn, Loving outloud), love (Lucky Jeans, Flirt) motherhood (for AJ at Seventeen, First Bath), relationships (Twenty-first morning, Monsters in the Closet...
Yale French Studies, Number 137/138 (Yale French Studies)
Number 137/138 in Yale French Studies, this collection of essays examines poetry in French by authors from across the Maghreb Although in recent years Maghrebi literature written in French has enjoyed increased critical attention, less attention has been paid specifically to the genre of poetry. The sixteen essays collected in this special issue of Yale French Studies show how the poem provides a uniquely privileged perspective from which to examine questions relating to aesthetics, linguistic...
Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is "sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking." The Advocate says that her poems, "combine hilarious one-liners with a refusal to conform" and note "Chin is out to confront more than just the straight world."