1. goings. Gone ; At the San Pablo & 34th Ave filling station ; And everything nice ; Rita's on Stenton ; 1998 ; Invocation ; "That and 52 cents will buy you a cup of coffee." ; Mama's weight ; In the wake of a transfer ; In the mitten's jaw ; All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-ATs) ; Praying mantis ; Jazz crusaders ; The summer my cousin stops playing with me ; Safe passage ; Golden Oreo ; Palimpsest, Urban ; Popular poisons ; Praying mantis is remarried ; The question is: ; Dove -- 2. channelings. Chambers ; Channelings -- 3. comings. Turnstiles ; Unnamed ; ALIVE: the simple acronym that may save your black child's life! ; Embrace ; The cashier has a thing for Black girls ; "I always wanted to bang a black boi!" ; Compensation ; Record of birth ; Nature nurture ; Role reversal ; Blemish ; Prequel, Saturn's ; What do you encounter in the void? ; Skyward & yawn ; This poet ; Touch me not ; Incise ; Three hears ; Pandemic ode: a partial prayer.
Summary:
"Michal "MJ" Jones' debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling--an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional narrative. A nostalgia for an unreachable home permeates these poems: "We were mighty beautiful once, in golden dust." The speaker of Hood Vacations tells of magic: of praying mantises, bathtub octopuses, Black ghosts, & bringing back "rainbow soap colors." It is a book of passing--as, through, and on. Hop on in"-- Amazon.
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