num_pages: 80
description: From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience comes a poetry collection exploring personal political and artistic frontiers journeying from her family's history as Afropioneers in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent liberated futures.In poems that range from wry tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life to more nuanced meditations on her ancestors--some of the earliest Black pioneers to settle in the western United States after Reconstruction--Golden Ax invites readers to re-imagine the West Black womanhood and the legacies that shape and sustain the pursuit of freedom.
language: English
title: Golden Ax
publisher: Penguin Books