Bone Language - Softcover

Baldwin, Jamaica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193691994X ISBN 13: 9781936919949

Publisher: YesYes Books, 2023

Synopsis

Jamaica Baldwin's poetry debut, Bone Language, is a testament to the specific ways women survive the world and its attacks on their bodies. At the core of this poet's survival is an engagement with a mother/daughter relationship that lives within the shadows of addiction-a love letter to mothers as they are, not as the world has asked them to be. With precision and vulnerability, Baldwin's lyric "I," signifies her body and its history as it reckons with loss, misogyny, racism, and desire. "I kept answering/your drowned voice with my own, / kept singing along /to our borrowed honey, / kept words, / the dead of women quick / with longing."

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About the Author

Jamaica Baldwin's debut collection, Bone Language, releases in 2023 from YesYes Books. Her poetry has appeared in Guernica, World Literature Today, The Adroit Journal, Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Missouri Review, among others. Her accolades include a 2023 Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a RHINO Poetry editor's prize, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. Her writing has been supported by Hedgebrook, Aspen Words, Storyknife, Furious Flower, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica is currently the associate editor of Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska -Lincoln where she is pursuing her PhD in English with a focus on poetry and Women's and Gender Studies. She is originally from Santa Cruz, CA.

Edition details

• Publisher: YesYes Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193691994X
• ISBN 13: 9781936919949
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96