Mahogany L. Browne

Chrome Valley: Poems (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Best Books of 2023: TIME, Electric Literature

From Lincoln Center's inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection that intricately mines the experience of being a Black woman in America.

Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. We praise their names / & the hands that write / Praise the mouth that speaks, she writes in tribute to those who came before her.

Browne captures a quintessential girlhood through the pleasures and pangs of young love: the thrill of skating hip to hip at the roller rink, the heat of holding hands in the dark, and, sometimes, the sting of a palm across the cheek. Friendship, too, comes with its own complex yearnings: you ain't had freedom / 'til you climb on bus 62 / & head to the closest mall / for a good seat at the girl fight.

Reflections of Browne's mother, Redbone, bolster the collection with moments of unwavering strength: give me my mother's bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spineRedbone got a spine for the world. Other moments explore the inherent anxieties shared among Black mothers, rhythmically intoning names like the tolling of a church bell: Because Kadiatou Diallo / Because Sybrina Fulton / Because Valeria Bell / Because Mamie Till.

The characters in Chrome Valley grapple with the legacies of inherited trauma but also revel in the beauty of the undaunted self-determination passed down from Black woman to Black woman. Transcendent and grounded, funny and furious, Chrome Valley brings depth to a movement, solidifying Mahogany L. Browne as one of the most significant poetic voices of our time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324092285
• Artikelnr.: 64066446

Autorenporträt

Mahogany L. Browne is a Kennedy Center Next 50 Fellow, inaugural poet in residence at Lincoln Center, and cofounder of the Brooklyn Poetry Slam. She is the author of inyl Moon, Chlorine Sky, Woke Baby, and Black Girl Magic. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.