Townsend veers away from punching down, treating her teenaged subjects with reverence.
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These poems center on the experience of Black girlhood to motherhood in direct, taut language and demonstrate Zobitz’s strong formal range.
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Denenberg has woven together centuries, tangling time periods. The antiquated meeting the modern mirrors how our impact here on earth is not so easily erased. What we do now does not go away.
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With intelligent musicality, Chazaro takes us back and forth over the Bay Bridge, into the diverse neighborhoods where he learned his own language for poetry and art.
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Memoir is meant to allow memories to marinate amongst the broader experiences of the writer’s readers. There’s no shortage of memoirs about eating disorders and coming of age despite difficult odds. Divided into three unequal parts, Starvation Mode is less about disorder and more about creating order from the unruly and otherwise uncontrollable forces that fight to determine what makes a woman.
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