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"Inspired by The Wiz, this poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman's quest for self-discovery--one that pulls her away from the safety of home and into her power"-- Provided by publisher.
Inspired by the classic musical The Wiz, Byas's poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman's quest for self-discovery. The woman-- and the reader-- is pulled through a series of situations in which she must confront...
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Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized policing combine to shape the city, Lake Michigan's poems explore the themes of estrangement, state violence and capitalist exploitation, and take a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in the historic...
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