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The Grace of Black Mothers

By Martheaus Perkins

The Grace of Black Mothers Poetry

The Grace of Black Mothers

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Carried within Martheaus Perkins' The Grace of Black Mothers are the many howls of lost children and their martyrized mothers. This debut collection brings a lyrical reckoning on behalf of dismembered dreams by boldly finding grace through our Black mothers, aunties, and grannies. The work invites the reader into a yard where "whisper-thin soul-jazz drips over America" to flip through a Nile-long family album. Mamie Till-Mobley, Sybrina Fulton, Harriet Tubman, and the author's own mothers guide us as we "wander streets like cartographers of poverty" and hold our "promises to come home." Perkins shows his craft by shapeshifting through fighting game menus, optometry charts, screenplays, pirate codes, social media threads, and forms that embody dreams themselves. The Grace of Black Mothers is a collection drenched in complexity and nuance: homemade heroes and villains, justice and fabrication, wit and risk, resurrection and erasure.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
112
Release Date:
2025-07-01
Publication Date:
2025-07-01
Publisher:
Trio House Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1949487423
ISBN13:
9781949487428
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
175 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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