Histories, stories, lyrics, aspirations, dreams, pressures, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body.
She is the author of Life During Wartime , winner of the Michael Rubin Prose Book Award and Warning Coloration ..
About the Author Kimberly Reyes is a poet and essayist who lives in San Francisco, California.
Reyes\'s poems offer sharp observations and lyrical movement to guide us in a ballad of reconciliation and becoming.
They sway between negotiations of hypervisibility and erasure, the inevitable and the chosen, and the perceived and the constructed.
These poems teem with life, a life rich with many selves and many histories that populate in the voice of Reyes\'s poetic narrator.
Building from poetic, journalistic, and musical histories, poet and essayist Kimberly Reyes constructs a complex and fantastic narrative in which she negotiates a path to claim her own power.
By breaching boundaries of racism, sexism, sizeism, colorism, and colonialism, these poems investigate the memories and realities of existing as Black in America.
Swarmed by external gazes and narratives, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down this cacophony of noise and compose a symphonic space for herself.
Histories, stories, lyrics, aspirations, dreams, pressures, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body
