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Author:

Hill, DaMaris B., author.

Title:

Breath better spent : living Black girlhood / DaMaris B. Hill.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xxiv, 149 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Subject:

African American girls--Poetry.
African American women--Poetry.
American poetry--21st century.
Narrative poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-145).

Contents:

In Search Of The Colored Girl. ***. Jarena Lee: A Platypus in a Petticoat -- Beloved Weirdo -- The Birth of Ma -- Ella Baker at the Ballot -- "Never Grow Old" -- Someone for Me -- Only Boys Have Fans -- Twice-Born Girl. What You Talking 'Bout -- Glutton -- Those Sunless Summer Mornings -- Hotter Than July -- Sign o' the Times -- Grace for Be'la Dona -- Dodge City Girls -- Still Scary -- How the Tongue Holds -- Sage Poets and Popstars -- Continuous Fire -- In the wilderness -- Wasting Her Lips -- Born Again and Again -- Never Grow Old: Part Two -- Gristle -- In Search Of The Colored Girl. The Gypsy Girl Gets No Solitude -- Nevaeh Adams and Sharee Bradley (Nevaeh's Mother) -- Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney -- for All of Birmingham's Baby Girls -- Aniah Blanchard -- Dear Christians of Alabama -- Anitra Gunn -- Kimberly Grisham -- Aziya Roberts #WeWalkForHer -- The Psalm of TeNiya Jones -- Homeroom -- Tendayi's Blues -- *** -- Baiting Boys -- New Year's Day 2021 -- #BringBackOurGirls: Not a Story -- #BringBackOurGirls: Premonition One -- #BringBackOurGirls: Premonition Two -- #BringBackOurGirls: Who Is Criminal? -- #BringBackOurGirls: Premonition Three -- #BringBackOurGirls: Premonition Four -- #BringBackOurGirls: Waifs and Wanting -- #BringBackOurGirls: Mama's Boy? -- ***.

Summary:

"Through the eyes and stories of prominent Black female figures from Zora Neale Hurston to Riley Curry and Michelle Obama, and with an homage to Toni Morrison's Beloved, Breath Better Spent beautifully and trenchantly captures the culture of Black girlhood and its changing relationship to American culture, exploring the highly visible and invisible spaces that Black girls occupy, from school, to home, to others' imaginations, and proceeds to question the disappearance - metaphorically and literally - of Black girls from the American imagination. Powerfully drawing on both history and her own experiences, Hill brings to life the vitality, creativity, and strength of Black girlhood while shining a light on a crisis we cannot ignore"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1635576474
9781635576474

LCCN:

2021044376

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)