TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mottley,Leila
TI  - Woke up no light
SN  - 9780593319710
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Black people
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Women, Black
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
N2  - "Woke up no light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from "girlhood" to "neighborhood" to "falsehood" to, finally, "womanhood," these poems reckon with themes of reparations, restitution, and desire. The collection is sharp and raw, wise and rhythmic, a combination that lights up each page. From unearthing histories to searching for ways to dream of a future in a world constantly on the brink of disaster, this young poet sets forth personal and political revelation with piercing detail"--
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