Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat - by Khalisa Rae (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><em>Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat</em> is an honest incantation and a forthright song to women of color grappling with the ever-present horrors and histories of the South.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Khalisa Rae's Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat is like a newborn scream that's been held in for eons. Sharp, strong, unapologetic, beautiful, and angry, the writing in this collection is a celebration of language and rhythm, and the words on the page run like the blood from a wound caused by racism. . . . this collection is not just one all fans of poetry should read; it's one we should be assigning in schools.--<strong>Gabino Iglesias</strong>, <em>PANK Magazine</em></p> <p>What happens when a Midwestern girl migrates to a haunted Southern town, whose river is a graveyard, whose streets bear the names of Southern slave owners? How can she build a home where Confederate symbols strategically stand in the center of town? Can she sage the chilling truths of her ancestors? What will she do to cope with the traumatizing ghostliness of the present-day South?</p> <p><em>Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat</em> is a heart-wrenching reconciliation and confrontation of the living, breathing ghosts that awaken Black women each day. This debut poetry collection summons multiple hauntings--ghosts of matriarchs that came before, those that were slain, and those that continue to speak to us, but also those horrors women of color strive to put to rest. <em>Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat</em> examines the haunting feeling of facing past demons while grappling with sexism, racism, and bigotry. They are all present: ancestral ghosts, societal ghosts, and spiritual, internal hauntings. This book calls out for women to speak their truth in hopes of settling the ghosts or at least being at peace with them.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>If storytelling in the griot's hands is a form of resistance, then <em>Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat</em> is a form of control. Khalisa Rae's poetics are unbreakable glass knives that own uncharted and unmarked underground burrows, providing refuge for righteous indignation.</p> <p>Unapologetic, slippery, but cautious language weaves inside, over, and under the remnants of sacrifice and atonement. We recoil to remember that our ancestral mothers once had a voice and now our voices are our bodies . . . "And that's what they will come / for first--the throat."</p> <p><em>Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat </em>pursues agency, selfhood, and disturbing meditations on inhumanity. These poems deliver truth and rage with the precision of a visionary heart and the rancid tears of a poisoned ghost.</p> <p>This powerful collection bears witness to the fraught overlap between women's bodies and minds. <em>Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat</em> reframes the Black body politic as sacrament, benediction, delicacy, and tenderness.</p> <p>These verses are timeless refrains sizzling on parched tongues. All praises for the testament of these poems that bring a full communion of blessed assurances to wise women daring oceans to erase our footprints and to wild girls chasing winds that steal the scent of herstory.<br /><strong>--Jaki Shelton Green, author of <em>I Want to Undie You</em></strong></p> <p><em>Ghosts in a Black Girl's Throat</em> resurrects the ancestral spirits of the not-so-distant past. In the poems of Khalisa Rae, ghosts become guardians--protectors of black healing, black truth, and black power. They live in the boldness of "Counterfeit," as chants that proclaim, "This black be authentic. This black be original. This melanated music be off the market." They live in the graces of "Body Apology," as roots that require nurture--bodies to be "planted," not "plucked". They live in the lands of "Our Pastoral Blues"--stolen, appropriated, "broken" but "locked in formation, weaving."</p> <p>Our hauntings, our ghosts, our pain--the deepest of hues, heavy and harrowing--live as we do in the here and now, awaiting rest. <em>Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat</em> honors the dead as the living, speaking new life into all that weighs on black women--by freeing the voices of those who have been silenced, bringing peace to the restless who are powerless no more.<br /><strong>--Denise Nichole Andrews, Editor in Chief, <em>The Hellebore</em> <em>Press</em>, and Founder, HUES Foundation</strong></p> <p>Rae considers the intersection of history and modernity in the American South in her provocative debut. Readers will be taken by the sometimes dangerous world Rae conjures.<strong><em>--Publishers Weekly</strong></em></p> <li> NewPages Blog Review</li> <li>Reviewed in Marías at Sampaguitas</li> <li>Featured inThe Root</li> <li>Featured in Mercurius Magazine</li> <li>Featured in The Writer's Almanac</li> <li>Reviewed in The Rumpus</li> <li>Featured in Autostraddle</li> <li>Featured in Lit Hub</li> <li>Featured on NBC News</li> <li>Reviewed by Yes Poetry</li> <li>Reviewed by The Poetry Question</li> <li>Reviewed by The Culture Commentator</li> <li>Featured on Lambda Literary</li> <li>Featured on Write or Die Tribe</li> <li>Featured on Poetry Daily</li> <li>Featured on Shade Literary Arts</li> <li>Featured on WRAL</li> <li>Featured on Read Poetry</li> <li>Featured on The Rumpus</li> <li>Featured on PopSugar</li> <li>Featured on Southern Review of Books</li> <li>Featured on The Chronicle</li> <li>Featured in The Florida Review</li> <li>Featured in Willawaw Journal</li> <li>Interview in The Hellebore</li> <li>Interview in The Poetry Question</li> <li>Featured in Off Menu Press</li> <li>Featured in Rust + Moth</li> <li>Featured in Iamb Poet</li> <p>Featured in PANK Magazine</p> <p>Featured in Rippling Pages</p><br>
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