Description
In this collection about resilience, Hicks speaks about giving her child up for adoption, mourning the death of her fiance, and embracing the nonbinary femme body-persevering in the face of medical malpractice, domestic abuse, and police violence. The poems find people transformed, "remade out of smoke & iron" into cyborgs and wolves, machines and witches-beings capable of seeking justice in a world that refuses them the option.
Exploring the intersections of Christianity, modern mysticism, and Afrofuturism in a sometimes urban, sometimes natural setting, Hicks finds a place where "everyone everywhere is hands in the air," where "you know they gonna push & pull it together. / Just like they learned to." It is a place of natural magick-where someone like Hicks can have more than one name: where they can be both dead and alive, both a mortal and a god.
Book Information
ISBN 9781946724243
Author Faylita Hicks
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Acre Books
Publisher Acre Books
Weight(grams) 160g
Dimensions(mm) 232mm * 158mm * 8mm