Poetry. Foreword by Afaa Michael Weaver. ARC &amp; HUE explores the paradoxes of life in America's past and present through the eyes of a biracial woman pondering the complexities of the world. This collection is also rich in musicality, a chorus of strong voices such as Billie Holiday, Tina Turner, and Pablo Neruda. ARC &amp; HUE was nominated for an American Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, an Anisfield-Wolf Award, and a Hurston Wright Legacy Award.

Arc & Hue

Literature & Fiction

Betts, Tara

Poetry

Aquarius Press/Willow Books

Tara BettsTrio House Press10/01/201694Binding Paperback0.33lbs9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d9780996586436

Break the Habit

Trio House Press

AFTER HOUSES is an extended meditation on homelessness. In unflinching, raw poetry, poet Claire Millikin explores states of homelessness, and a longing for, even a devotion to, houses — houses as spaces where one could be safe and at ease. The poems move through an American landscape, between the South and the North, between childhood and adulthood, reaching toward a home that’s never reached, but always at one’s fingertips. Throughout the collection, Millikin draws from personal and family history, from classical mythology and architectural theory, to shape a poetry of empathy, in which some of the places where people get lost in America are faced and given place. AFTER HOUSES echo the voices of girls who have not quite survived, but who persist, intact in the way that Rimbaud insists on intactness, in words. Cover photo by Gary Baller.

After Houses: Poetry for the Homeless by Claire Millikin

Millikin, Claire

2Leaf Press

A new collection singing the survival and thriving of Black women, chosen by Cynthia Arrieu-King for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. "In the spirit of magic, potions, and inventory, this book calls up the language of both science and witchery to call roll on Black women. Betts says their names in a litany of circumstances and survival. In the first section of the book, the poet draws a matrilineal line that connects these beings, and through this line, the bounce and weft of Betts's verse meets readers in the actual: in hot sauce, FUBU, Sin-dee and Alexandra from Tangerine, Simone Biles, and on. Next, Betts brings in a movement of poems centered around music and the diamond needle of voice--how one sings oneself into being, and how the 'song of my dead' is the only magnet for society's attention, not the love, not the joy or fact of living. In the final poems, the voice carries solemn reality, mulling all that's been lost and imprisoned with the alchemy of showing up."--Cynthia Arrieu-King, 2021 judge for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection "IN REFUSE TO DISAPPEAR Tara Betts writes histories and lineages into lines, pleating language into reunion, tucking it into the page's pocket for another to find across time--gris-gris, amulet, 'my slingshot and my stone.' These poems shimmer with Betts's fierce, devoted attention to Black Life. Like poems by Audre Lorde and June Jordan, these poems refuse silence and forgetting. With love and clarity and fight, they face fire and speak: 'time may burn and i / refuse to disappear.'"-- Aracelis Girmay "What a revelation. In REFUSE TO DISAPPEAR, Tara Betts holds fire--sometimes, her poems are like beacons on a darkening day, sometimes her poems radiate the blaze of Black women's voices, then and now, never to be forgotten, sometimes her lines flame up and unjust history is singed, and you read, like you've found that friend who puts language to that thing you felt but couldn't put words to, that home fire rescue."-- Cornelius Eady Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies.

Refuse to Disappear

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Arc & Hue

Break the Habit

After Houses: Poetry for the Homeless by Claire Millikin

Refuse to Disappear