Description
These dynamics strive for some semblance of accountability, and the essays within this collection are used as displays of deep unlearning and restoring-balancing trauma and humor, poetics and reality, forgiveness and resentment.
When You Learn the Alphabet allots space for large moments of tenderness and empathy for all black bodies-but especially all black woman bodies-space for the underrepresented humanity and uncared for pain of black girls, and space to have the opportunity to be listened to in order to evolve past it.
About the Author
Kendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. Her work has been published in Brevity, December Magazine, and the Rumpus.
Book Information
ISBN 9781609386290
Author Kendra Allen
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint University of Iowa Press
Publisher University of Iowa Press
Weight(grams) 235g