num_pages: 224
description: A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past two decades jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet performer publisher activist and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice this searing poetry collection is filled with moving original stanzas that speak to both Black womens creative and intellectual power and express the pain sadness and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race. Fierce and passionate Jessica Care moore argues that Black women spend their lives building a physical and emotional shelter to protect themselves from misogyny criminalization hatred stereotypes sexual assault objectification patriarchy and death threats.We Want Our Bodies Back is an explorationand defiant stance againstthese many attacks.
language: English
title: We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems
publisher: Amistad