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    Burning sugar : poems / Cicely Belle Blain.

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    • Title:Burning sugar : poems / Cicely Belle Blain.
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    • Author/Creator:Blain, Cicely Belle, 1993- author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Blain, Cicely Belle, 1993- Poems. Selections.
    • Published/Created:Vancouver : VS books, an imprint of Arsenal Pulp Press, [2020]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Canadian poetry--21st century.
    • Genre/Form:Poetry.
    • Description:109 pages ; 21 cm
    • Summary:"The latest from Vivek Shraya's VS. Books: a poetic exploration of Black identity, history, and lived experience influenced by the constant search for liberation. In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in personal history to expose the legacy of colonization and its impact on Black bodies. They use poetry to illuminate their activist work: exposing racism, especially anti-Blackness, and helping people see the connections between history and systemic oppression that show up in every human interaction, space, and community. Their poems demonstrate how the world is both beautiful and cruel, a truth that inspires overwhelming anger and awe--all of which spills out onto the page to tell the story of a challenging, complex, nuanced, and joyful life. In Burning Sugar, verse and epistolary, racism and resilience, pain and precarity are flawlessly sewn together by the mighty hands of a Black, queer femme. This book is the second title to be published under the VS. Books imprint, a series curated and edited by writer-musician Vivek Shraya, featuring work by new and emerging Indigenous or Black writers, or writers of colour."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
    • ISBN:9781551528250 paperback
      1551528258 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: PLACE
      Manitoba
      Northern California
      Dallas
      Homestead, Florida
      Hollywood, Florida
      Minnesota
      Saint Paul
      Dear Philando Castile
      Banjul
      Serrekunda
      Bijilo, The Gambia
      London
      Llantwit Major
      Oakland
      North Carolina
      Cache Creek
      Alexandra Bridge
      Penticton
      Peachland
      Lezignan-Corbierres
      Vancouver
      Metchosin
      Chilliwack
      Salt Spring Island
      Toronto
      ART
      Soul Of A Nation
      Sister, Yellow
      I Hate White People In Art Galleries
      Listening To Tracy Chapman While Observing Art
      Stop Killing Black Boys
      Dear Martin
      Dark
      Dear Archibald Motley Jr.
      New Suns
      Dear Kahlil
      New Horizons
      Black Men Don't Ride Horses
      Salt
      Dear Selina
      CHILD
      "Father"
      First Grade
      Third Grade
      Fifth Grade
      Separation
      Boys
      Dear Diaspora Child
      Gentrification Of My Heart
      1942
      1971
      1981
      1999
      Step On A Crack, Break Your Back
      Unapologetically Queer
      Dear Peter
      Everything On Earth
      This Body
      Spiritual Dysphoria.
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