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Chrome Valley: Poems

Chrome Valley: Poems - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mahogany L. BrownePublish date:2023-02-07Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9781324092278ISBN-10:1324092270UPC:9781324092278Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Love & EroticaSize:9.01 x 5.32 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCA5J9VT1N
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 spine--Redbone 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9781324092278ISBN-10:1324092270UPC:9781324092278Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Love & EroticaSize:9.01 x 5.32 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCA5J9VT1N
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation

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