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Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Poems

Name: Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Poems
Brand: Northwestern University Press
SKU: 9780810145177
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Contributors:

Brionne Janae

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Poetry

Book Subcategory:

American, Women Authors

Book Topic:

African American & Black

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Release Date:

2022-04-15

ISBN 13:

9780810145177

Weight:

0.3 lbs

Size:

8.82 x 5.83 x 0.39 inches

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Winner of the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize

At once interested in the cyclical nature of domestic dysfunction and what we do when secrets of buried harm come to light, Blessed Are the Peacemakers asks what it means to make peace in the wake of intrafamilial violence and child sexual assault. These poems explore the ways the truth is often hidden behind layers of bleach and shame, and the ways we fail survivors by dismissing their stories and tolerating their abusers.

Filled with elegies to the people who have been murdered by state violence, racism, and anti-Blackness in the United States, Blessed Are the Peacemakers interrogates the lengths and limitations of grace. Brionne Janae examines what it means to survive--particularly as a Black girl, woman, queer person, or human--and uses self-portraiture to explore how familial and communal trauma plague our mental health. How do we survive the grief of the past and present without becoming numb to or consumed by it? How do we remember, despite our pain, to enjoy our bodies and our lives while we still have them?

About the Author
BRIONNE JANAE is the author of After Jubilee. Their poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, jubilat, the Rumpus, the Los Angeles Review, and Waxwing, among other publications.

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