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Author / Creator:	Anderson, Ashanti, author.
Imprint:	[New York] : Black Lawrence Press , 2021. ©2021
Description:	24 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Black people -- Race identity -- Poetry. Gender identity -- Poetry. American poetry -- African American authors. American poetry -- Women authors. American poetry -- 21st century. American poetry. Poetry -- Black authors.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13020413

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ISBN:	9781625570185 162557018X
Notes:	Place of publication from publisher's website.
Summary:	The poem from which BLACK UNDER derives its title opens with a resounding declaration: "I am black and black underneath." These words are an anthem that reverberates throughout Ashanti Anderson's debut short collection. We feel them as we navigate her poems' linguistic risks and shifts and trumpets, as we straddle scales that tip us toward trauma's still-bloody knife in one turn then into cutting wit and shrewd humor in the next. We hear them amplified through Anderson's dynamic voice, which sings of anguish and atrocities and also of discovery and beauty. BLACK UNDER layers outward perception with internal truth to offer an almost-telescopic examination of the redundancies--and incongruences--of marginalization and hypervisibility. Anderson torques the contradictions of oppression, giving her speakers the breathing room to discover their own agency. In these pages, declarations are reclamations, and joy is not an aspiration but a birthright.

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Summary:	Winner of the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition<br> The poem from which Black Under derives its title opens with a resounding declaration: " I am black and black underneath." These words are an anthem that reverberates throughout Ashanti Anderson' s debut short collection. We feel them as we navigate her poems' linguistic risks and shifts and trumpets, as we straddle scales that tip us toward trauma' s still-bloody knife in one turn then into cutting wit and shrewd humor in the next. We hear them amplified through Anderson' s dynamic voice, which sings of anguish and atrocities and also of discovery and beauty.<br> Black Under layers outward perception with internal truth to offer an almost-telescopic examination of the redundancies-- and incongruences-- of marginalization and hypervisibility. Anderson torques the contradictions of oppression, giving her speakers the breathing room to discover their own agency. In these pages, declarations are reclamations, and joy is not an aspiration but a birthright.
Item Description:	Place of publication from publisher's website.
Physical Description:	24 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9781625570185 162557018X