woke up no light: poems Binding:Hardcover dispositions

dispositions

let Palestine be left alone

he doesn't show concern for much else

She’s been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene

woke up no light: poems Binding:Hardcover dispositionsA poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California woke up no light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from "girlhood" to "neighborhood" to "falsehood" to, finally,