Uses of My Body
Publisher: Barrow Street Press
Published: Oct 15, 2020
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780999746189
Description: "The charged and direct language of USES OF MY BODY emphasizes black women's experience of erasure, sexual and racial violence, as well as pleasure and healing. The poems are marked by the refusal to code switch and speak to repeated experiences of being touched and looked at as a black woman navigating desire and intimate relationships. The book is an unapologetic and humorous exploration of sex, magic, and dancing, as a fitness instructor/gym junky, poet, and academic living in Kansas."--From publisher's description.