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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.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Blain, Cicely Belle, 1993- Poems. Selections.
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Published/Created:Vancouver : VS books, an imprint of Arsenal Pulp Press, [2020]
©2020
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: PS8603.I299 B87 2020
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Canadian poetry--21st century.
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Genre/Form:Poetry.
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Description:109 pages ; 21 cm
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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.
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Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
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ISBN:9781551528250 paperback
1551528258 paperback
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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.