{"product_id":"v-paperback-4","title":"(V.) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnastacia Renee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1974, when Ntozake Shange first released the cannon of Black girl magic known as \u003ci\u003eFor colored girls who have considered suicide \/ when the rainbow is enuf\u003c\/i\u003e, her opening stanza was a call to all of us. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"somebody \/ anybody \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esing a black girl's song \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebring her out \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto know herself ...\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is answer to that call. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnastacia-Reneéeacute;'s words frame so many questions: what is sacred, what is beauty, what is tragedy, what rites of passage have we endured to be initiated into the complexities of our humanity? These poems read like rituals, invoking ancestors and Becky alike in a nuanced honest reflection of this time in life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese poems are stories of blackness, of queerness, of womanhood, and of all the identities we hold externally and internally that create the tapestry of who we are and who we want to be.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnastacia-Reneé is a multi-genre writer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist. She is the recipient of the 2018, James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award for Washington artists (Artist Trust), and has served as the Seattle Civic Poet from 2017-2019, and the 2015-2017 Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House. Anastacia-Renee is a two-time Pushcart nominee and 2017 Artist of Year (Seattle). She is the author of five books: \u003ci\u003eForget It\u003c\/i\u003e (Black Radish Books), \u003ci\u003e(v.)\u003c\/i\u003e (Black Ocean), \u003ci\u003e26\u003c\/i\u003e (Dancing Girl Press), \u003ci\u003eKiss Me Doll Face\u003c\/i\u003e (Gramma Press) and \u003ci\u003eAnswer(Me)\u003c\/i\u003e (Winged City Chapbooks, Argus Press) and has received writing fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, VONA, Artist Trust, Jack Straw, Ragdale, Whiteley, Mineral School and Hypatia in the Woods. Her cross-genre writing has appeared in a TEDx talk and the anthologies: Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, Sinister Wisdom: Black Lesbians--We Are the Revolution, Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks and: Ms. Magazine, Split this Rock, Painted Bride Quarterly, Crab Creek Review, Seattle Review, The Fight \u0026amp; the Fiddle, Duende, Poetry Northwest, Synaethesia, Banqueted, Torch, Mom Egg Review, The Magazine of Glamorous Refusal, Pinwheel Journal, and many more. She teaches poetry and multi-genre workshops at Hugo House, libraries, universities, and high schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 134\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.4 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46585982124229,"sku":"9781939568342","price":23.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/LuMH1sXkrw9781939568342_f3202ec4-bf8b-48e1-b08b-fac4690bf681.webp?v=1784884560","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/v-paperback-4","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}