And What Would You Say If You Could?
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Third Man Books
Published:5th Mar '20
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Haviland N.G. Whiting was named the 2018 Nashville Youth Poet Laureate. And What Would You Say If You Could? Is her debut collection of poems. Confronting issues of race, gender, and history, Whiting's is a powerful new, young voice.Whiting in her book And What Would You Say if You Could? leads us on a journey of history, grief, beauty, and what it means to come of age as a Black woman in this country. “The world and its past and present happenings are not always things of beauty,” writes Whiting. “Racism. Sexism. Colorism. Slavery. Violence. Death. Yet, these often-unspeakable things are importantly spoken in the most beautiful but damning words.”
“There are no apologies here for the poet, Black woman she is becoming. Haviland Nona Gai Whiting’s poetry is cultural music and a refreshing lesson for all who will read and listen. — Haki Madhubti, founder of Third World Press/ Black Arts Poet/ author of Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions “And What Would You Say if You Could? Is astonishing. Aware but unworried, besotted by the small beauties of life and large beauties of self, in a violent, ugly, ignorant, and weary world, defeated, for a page, for a moment, by Haviland Whiting’s (very young and true significant) voice.” — Alice Randall, author of The Wind Done Gone and Rebel Yell
ISBN: 9781733350105
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60 pages