Monica Sekhmet Grant
ASIN: B00ONB9FA8
Publisher: Empress Rights Press LLC
Pages: 92
Poems for My People and Me is a work that acts locally and speaks globally, through ages of history, from the pharaohs of ancient Egypt to thugs on the streets of New York today. It looks inward and reflects outward, giving representation to the truth of the personal as political. It's a work that uses anger as fuel to stay engaged, fight to overcome, and stay positive.Questioning our assumptions around money and power, calling out systematic racism and cultural misogyny along the way, Poems for My People and Me is a hard-hitting work that speaks clearly while moving seamlessly through time and space.Its words deal with concrete landscapes as real as Rita Dove's On the Bus With Rosa Parks and metaphysical realms as wild as Elizabeth Alexander's Antebellum Dream Book. A writer on the front-lines of social change, Monica Sekhmet Grant's writing is informed by her work asa food justice ...