Browne, Mahogany L. (Ed.); Simmonds, Idrissa (Ed.); Woods, Jamila (Ed.); Smith, Patricia (Foreword)

The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic [SIGNED]

Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018.

Paperback. Signed by editor and contributor, Mahogany L. Brown and contributor Whitney Greenaway in ink to title page. 9" X 6". xxviii, 233pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club, and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form.

Poet and vocalist Jamila Woods was raised in Chicago, and graduated from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Africana Studies and Theatre & Performance Studies. Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, much of her writing explores blackness, womanhood, and the city of Chicago.

Mahogany L. Browne is a Cave Canem and Poets House alumna and the author of several books including Smudge and Redbone. She directs the poetry program of the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Idrissa Simmonds is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, The Caribbean Writer, Fourteen Hills Press, and elsewhere. She is the 2014 winner of the Crab Creek Review poetry contest, and a New York Foundation for the Arts and Commonwealth Short Story Award Finalist.(Publisher). Very good +. Item #8133
ISBN: 9781608468577

Price: $30.00