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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. These poems are deceptive. They may appear, at first, to be casual, yet there is nothing casual about the captured insights and feelings. They catch out the reader with a deft twist, and an invitation to rethink perceptions. ( )Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. I enjoyed reading these poems and especially how the author conveyed language using spacing, indentation, and paragraph structures. This was something that felt unique to me. However, I really wish the book included more information about the author before diving into the poems. I didn't feel as attached to the story as I hoped. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. In Casual Conversation, Renia White shares what it means to be a Black woman in America. Divided in three parts, this poetry collection, the first published by the author, explores feelings and ideas, images and sounds.
I am not particularly a poetry reader, but I enjoyed discovering Renia White’s poetry. These poems are what the title of the collection is, casual conversations. She speaks of everything and nothing at the same time. That guy she crossed in the street, that perfume she smelt, that thing she saw on television. Rhymes and breaks cross, and answer each other, guiding the reader into a melodic walk of words. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. Stunning. The rhythm, the language, the line breaks, the things she says. It's hard for me to find words. Think of that feeling when you first read one of your very favorite writers. Maybe you looked up a lot, wishing you could see someone to share your amazing discovery, stroking the book cover as you mused on a line and the cover art. Or maybe you weren't seeing anything, eyes unfocused or closed, senses totally wrapt in the language filling your head. This is that book. This is that experience. Smart, angry, tender, with the energy of the BreakBeat Poets, the lyricism and invention of Toni Morrison, the vision of Gloria Naylor. "how could we know that fear/ is nothing but power going in the wrong direction?" (37) There aren't enough stars. Thank you to LT & BOA Editions for letting me read this. Renia White, the gods thank you for writing it. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
A Blessing the Boats Selection with a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay, Renia White's debut poetry collection pushes against state-sanctioned authority and societal thought while ruminating on Black joy. Renia White's debut poetry collection strikes up a conversation, considering what's being said, what isn't, and where it all come from. From her vantage point of Black womanhood, White probes the norms and mores of everyday interactions. In observations, insights, and snippets of speech, these poems look to the unspoken thoughts behind our banter, questioning the authority of not only the rule of law but also of our small talk itself--the concepts we have accepted and integrated without pause. Casual Conversation imagines a new way of knowing, a way that encourages us to think through how we structure and stratify ourselves, inviting something strange and other to spill out. White challenges us to question whether there is anything casual about this life, even as she invites us to consider other logics and to think alongside each other. This book gives space to hold what we fear out of formality: consequence, embarrassment, anger. It plays, it tarries, it disrupts. It pulls apart what seems sound in an effort to see: what did we make here? How's it going? Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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