Bibliograph

The collection plate, poems, Kendra Allen

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The collection plate, poems, Kendra Allen

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

The collection plate

Oclc number

1199124789

Responsibility statement

Kendra Allen

Sub title

poems

Summary

Looping through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies--and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility

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