Using the necessary kindling of unflinching memory and fearless observation, anjail rashida ahmad ignites a slow-burning rage at the generations-long shadow under which African American women have struggled, and sparks a hope that illuminates "how the acts of women -- / loving themselves -- / can keep the spirit / renewed". Fueling the poet's fire -- sometimes angry-voiced but always poised and graceful -- are memories of her grandmother; a son who "hangs / between…
Author: Anjail Rashida Ahmad · Original publisher: Louisiana State University Press (2001)
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