Poems for My People & Me
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00ONB9FA8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 482 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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kl said MUST HAVE for 'the revolotutionary' music & poetry lover;. With a sound reminiscent of Gil Scott-Heron mixed with MC Lyte or Queen Latifah & the southern twang of Andre MUST HAVE for 'the revolotutionary' music & poetry lover; With a sound reminiscent of Gil Scott-Heron mixed with MC Lyte or Queen Latifah & the southern twang of Andre 3000, Monica "Sekhmet" Grant brings a very necessary lyric to some familiar sounds. If you like good music & REAL LIFE (read: no BS) anti-oppressive writings, this book & mixtape are MUST HAVES.. 000, Monica "Sekhmet" Grant brings a very necessary lyric to some familiar sounds. If you like good music & REAL LIFE (read: no BS) anti-oppressive writings, this book & mixtape are MUST HAVES.
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It's a work that uses anger as fuel to stay engaged, fight to overcome, and stay positive.Questioning our assumptions around money and power, calling out systematic racism and cultural misogyny along the way, Poems for My People and Me is a hard-hitting work that speaks clearly while moving seamlessly through time and space.Its words deal with concrete landscapes as real as Rita Dove's On the Bus With Rosa Parks and metaphysical realms as wild as Elizabeth Alexander's Antebellum Dream Book. It looks inward and reflects outward, giving representation to the truth of the personal as political. Poems for My People and Me is a work that acts locally and speaks globally, through ages of history, from the pharaohs of ancient Egypt to thugs on the streets of New York today. A writer on the front-lines of social change, Monica Sekhmet Grant's writing is informed by her work asa food justice activist, labor activist, and a liason between people of color and LGBTQ communities.