Finna: Poems

Nate Marshall

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Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling & in creating the safety found only within its intimacy

Definition of finna, created by the author: finna /ˈfinə/ contraction: (1) going to; intending to [rooted in African American Vernacular English] (2) eye dialect spelling of "fixing to" (3) Black possibility; Black futurity; Blackness as tomorrow

These poems consider the brevity & disposability of Black lives & other oppressed people in our current era of emboldened white supremacy, & the use of the Black vernacular in America's vast reserve of racial & gendered epithets. Finna explores the erasure of peoples in the American narrative; asks how gendered language can provoke violence; & finally, how the Black vernacular, expands our notions of possibility, giving us a new language of hope:
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Kateqoriyalar:

Poetry - American Poetry

İl:

2020

Nəşriyyat:

Random House Publishing Group

Dil:

english

Fayl:

EPUB, 6.71 MB

IPFS:

english, 2020