The Collection Plate
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: Ecco; Ecco Press
Published: Jul 06, 2021
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780063048478
Description: Looping through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies--and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility.
Notes: Source title: The Collection Plate: Poems