On Wings Made of Gauze

Plot

she speaks to her black ancestors, mothers-daughters-uncles-fathers all, her black family and community. She speaks frankly about the specific instances of police-enshrined violence against black male youth that could be plucked from a 2021 headline. The gaze in these poems is watchful in spirit and flesh inhabitations. The poems conjure a full and unfettered need to return. -- review from Goodreads