Gumbo Ya Ya Material:Paperback trying to achieve a freedom

trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him

Poetic and profoundly feminist

From one of the country’s most visionary legal thinkers

How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country’s most essential stories are hidden in plain view-whether in places we might drive by on our way to work

this ghetto girl will do anything to stay on top

Gumbo Ya Ya Material:Paperback trying to achieve a freedomWinner of the 2020 Cave Canem Prize Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Maries stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking reimagination of the world, one