Description
In the tender, sensual, and bracing poems of a more perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis reclaims the experience of living and mothering while Black in contemporary America, centering Black women's pleasure by wresting it away from the relentless commodification of the White gaze. Cross Davis deploys stunning emotional range to uplift the mundane, interrogate the status quo, and ultimately create her own goddesses. Parenting, lust, household chores--all are fair game for Cross Davis's gimlet eye. Whether honoring her grief for Prince's passing while examining his role in midwifing her sexual awakening or contemplating travel and the gamble of being Black across this wide world, these poems tirelessly seek a path out of the labyrinth to hope.
Author: Teri Ellen Cross Davis
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 02/10/2021
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780814257784
ISBN10: 081425778X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | African American & Black
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
- Poetry | Women Authors
Author: Teri Ellen Cross Davis
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 02/10/2021
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780814257784
ISBN10: 081425778X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | African American & Black
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
- Poetry | Women Authors
About the Author
Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of Haint: poems, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and works as the Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.