| Ain't Never Not Been Black Contributor(s): Johnson, Javon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1943735840 ISBN-13: 9781943735846 Publisher: Button Poetry OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places - Poetry | American - African American |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.15 lbs) 100 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ain't Never Not Been Black foregrounds Black pleasure Black pain and Black love in unflinchingly Black ways. Engaging with themes of masculinity, racism, love, and joy, Johnson is at once critical and creative. His spoken word performance transfers effortlessly to the page, with poems that will encompass you. This is a book about blackness and survival, and how in America these are inseparable. In a world of individualism, who can you hold close? In a world of danger, what makes you feel safe? From a poem written in the form of a syllabus, to another about the time his grandmother literally saved his life, Johnson's creative expression is constantly enacting the feminist mantra, "the personal is political." |