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In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being “trouble”—difficult, unruly, fearsome, defiant—is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the Hoodoo spiritual tradition and organized via reimagined tarot cards, this collection becomes a chorus of unapologetic women who laugh, cry, mesmerize, and bring outsiders to their knees. Summoning the supernatural to examine death, rebirth, and life outside the male gaze, Amber McBride has crafted a haunting, spellbinding, and strikingly original collection of poems that reckon with the force and complexity of Black womanhood.
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February 13, 2024 -
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- ISBN: 9780593511541
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- ISBN: 9780593511541
- File size: 7823 KB
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- English
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January 1, 2024
McBride presents her first poetry collection for adults after winning awards for her YA fiction, and it is a vibrant exploration of growing up as a Black woman in the American South. There are five sections, arranged as tarot card groupings, one of many supernatural and other-worldly devices and images that populate the book. Visions, ghosts, hauntings, ruminations on the untimely deaths of young Black people are all examined through succinct yet no less devastating pieces. The coming-of-age poems are standouts, presenting the expectations for women from a young age as in "11-years-old (Bleeding)," a poem that explores first menstruation, "it's your own damn fault you started so early / you was born late, every extra day / in the womb counts as a year. / i clutched my stomach afraid. / it hurts, i whined / it should, was the reply." McBride is gifted at wordplay. The themes of "thickness" and "trouble" appear throughout, taking on many different meanings and tying the poems together to create a holistic gathering and a striking and powerful debut.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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