Dead Girl Cameo: A Love Song in Poems - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593733998ISBN-10:593733991UPC:9780593733998Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, LGBTQ+Book Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCMCN36GGN
A dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, and others to explore sexuality, survival, queer mourning, and the afterlives of stardom "Studded with perfect little jewels of looking, of feeling, of deep knowing . . . These poems haunt, and celebrate, and mourn."--Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die "I made, of my bones, an earth for you: turned the oceans
your favorite shade of light, that deepened, nearly bruised
dusk. Reflected in my palms, what I've made into water
glows amethyst"
In m. mick powell's polyphonic, haunting debut, a chorus of voices conjures up intimate pop herstories to map how the poet's queer Black girlhood was molded by their memory. With tender reverence, powell meditates on the deaths of her own beloveds while reflecting on the many stages of an icon's life: How did these women challenge conventional representations of Black femininity and transform the musical landscape? How did they navigate abuse and alienation in the limelight? How do the mythologies that survive them establish afterlives of queer femme possibility? Through sensual imagery, speculative verse, and splendid wordplay, Dead Girl Cameo takes us beyond the headlines, innovating a Black feminist poetic that traverses the richly textured realms of grief, girlhood, love, widowing, femme friendship, and queer fandom.
your favorite shade of light, that deepened, nearly bruised
dusk. Reflected in my palms, what I've made into water
glows amethyst"
In m. mick powell's polyphonic, haunting debut, a chorus of voices conjures up intimate pop herstories to map how the poet's queer Black girlhood was molded by their memory. With tender reverence, powell meditates on the deaths of her own beloveds while reflecting on the many stages of an icon's life: How did these women challenge conventional representations of Black femininity and transform the musical landscape? How did they navigate abuse and alienation in the limelight? How do the mythologies that survive them establish afterlives of queer femme possibility? Through sensual imagery, speculative verse, and splendid wordplay, Dead Girl Cameo takes us beyond the headlines, innovating a Black feminist poetic that traverses the richly textured realms of grief, girlhood, love, widowing, femme friendship, and queer fandom.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593733998ISBN-10:593733991UPC:9780593733998Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, LGBTQ+Book Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCMCN36GGN
m. mick powell is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, a poet, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbooks threesome in the last Toyota Celica and chronicle the body. Their poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize, and appear in RHINO, Muzzle, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and elsewhere. mick is a professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut and an adjunct in Bay Path University's MFA in creative nonfiction writing program. A former Tin House Resident, she enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love.
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