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02673aam a22003618i 4500 001 D6886746A84711ED9CBBB8C53CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230209010057 008 221202s2023 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2022057569 020 $a 1324092270 020 $a 9781324092278 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3602.R7364 $b C48 2023 082 00 $a 811/.6 $2 23/eng/20221212 100 1 $a Browne, Mahogany L., $e author. 245 10 $a Chrome valley : $b poems / $c Mahogany L. Browne. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2302 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company, $c [2023] 300 $a 142 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women, Black $v Poetry. 655 0 $a Poetry. 941 $a 6 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024822.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032243.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011621.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230503011247.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230405013432.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230302012520.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D6886746A84711ED9CBBB8C53CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search