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A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice

Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plateexplores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies?and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility

Both formally exciting and a delight to read, The Collection Plateis a testament to Allen?s place as the voice of a generation?and a witness to how we come into being in the twenty-first century.

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/08/2022
      ISBN13: 9780063048485, 978-0063048485
      ISBN10: 0063048485

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice

      Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plateexplores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies?and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility

      Both formally exciting and a delight to read, The Collection Plateis a testament to Allen?s place as the voice of a generation?and a witness to how we come into being in the twenty-first century.

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