| Bone Contributor(s): Daley-Ward, Yrsa (Author), Laymon, Kiese (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 014313261X ISBN-13: 9780143132615 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica |
| Dewey: 821.92 |
| LCCN: 2017031004 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.30 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Holiday - Valentine's Day - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "yrsa daley-ward's bone is a symphony of breaking and mending. . . . she lays her hands on the pulse of the thing. . . . an expert storyteller. of the rarest. and purest kind." --nayyirah waheed, author of salt. From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of poems about the heart, life, and the inner self. Foreword by Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir Bone. Visceral. Close to. Stark. The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's collection bone are exactly that: reflections on a particular life honed to their essence--so clear and pared-down, they become universal. From navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society's expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward's bone resonates to the core of what it means to be human. "You will come away bruised. You will come away bruised but this will give you poetry." |