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03159aam a2200349 i 4500 001 2E61C6A22D7D11ECB9756F1C34ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211015010020 008 201008t20212021nyu 000 p eng d 020 $a 0063048477 020 $a 9780063048478 035 $a (OCoLC)1199124789 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCO $d OCLCO $d CPL $d YDX $d OCLCF $d PAU $d UOK $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 811/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Allen, Kendra, $d 1994- $e author. 245 14 $a The collection plate : $b poems / $c Kendra Allen. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 78 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a Looping through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies--and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility. 505 00 $t Gifting back bread & barren land. $t Look at the material -- $t I'm the note held toward the end -- $t Company is coming over -- $t Solace by earl -- $t If I'm not my mother -- $t The invention of the Super Sadness! was an accident -- $t I hate when niggas die -- $t Our Father's house (i) -- $t #FreeMyNiggas but free my niggas -- $t A trilogy everyone watches -- $t My sex wet -- $t I come to you as humbly as I know how -- $t The many times I failed to defend my mother to Our Father -- $t We had died real quick -- $t Learning to tread water -- $t Collection plates -- $t Our Father's house (ii) -- $t All the things that stretch out my lower back -- $t Naked & afraid -- $t Afraid & naked -- $t The water cycle -- $t Practical life skills -- $t Melatonin -- $t Our Father's house (iii) -- $t Been back before -- $t The Super Sadness! feels like anger which feels like -- $t Let's leave -- $t I ain't never baked a thing from scratch a day in my life -- $t Our Father's house (iv) -- $t Chihuahuas -- $t I'm tired of yo ass always crying -- $t If you throw me in this water what you're telling me is you want me dead -- $t Most calvaries have dead people -- $t The maybe memory -- $t Happy 100th birthday -- $t Who say good folk ain't supposed to die -- $t When I eulogize Our Father -- $t "No one had told her about the end of love" -- $t Leave me alone -- $t If I am the Father -- $t Birth of black bishop -- $t Our Father's house (v) -- $t Sermon notes -- $t Gifting back bread & barren land. 650 0 $a Identity (Philosophical concept) $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Women $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Minorities $x Social conditions $v Poetry. 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Free verse. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Visual poetry. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010025428.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211015010102.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2E61C6A22D7D11ECB9756F1C34ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search