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Celebrate Black History Month with a rich selection of BOA's newest poetry showcasing Black voices and Black history.
The Black History Month Bundle includes the following books:
- Second Nature by Chaun Ballard
- Yard Show by Janice N. Harrington
- Every Hard Sweetness by Sheila Carter-Jones
- Blue on a Blue Palette by Lynne Thompson
- d-sorientation by Charleen Mcclure
Book Descriptions
Second Nature: Chaun Ballard’s gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban.
Yard Show: Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States.
Every Hard Sweetness: Carter-Jones chronicles Civil Rights’ era atrocities through the story of her family’s experience with an all-too-common practice in which Black men were wrongfully incarcerated in institutions for the criminally insane.
Blue on a Blue Palette: Lynne Thompson’s Blue on a Blue Palette reflects on the condition of women—their joys despite their histories, and their insistence on survival as issues of race, culture, pandemic, and climate threaten their livelihoods.
d-sorientation: Charleen McClure’s d-sorientation wanders the landscape of loss with a weathered eye and a clenched fist. Delving deep into personal hauntologies, McClure’s speakers are dislocated—their observations and interrogations are quietly desperate as they navigate history, relationships, and dig for their roots.