Review: Four poets have something to say about race, gender and violence
“Brute,” by Emily Skaja. The Tradition In his searing “The Tradition” , Jericho Brown illustrates how racism and violence have shaped both the past and the present, our national identity and the individual experiences of those who have been harmed by entrenched, insidious wrongs. As Brown confronts history and family dynamics, the fears and beliefs handed down through generations, he raises important questions about trauma and how people endure when injustice touches nearly every aspect of life.
Brute Emily Skaja also faces down the past in her debut “Brute” , winner of the 2018 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Here, the anguish comes from an emotionally abusive lover and the abrupt end of a relationship. As the speaker excavates her grief and disbelief, she slowly moves from self-condemnation to a fiery insistence that she can overcome her boyfriend’s damaging assessments of her worth and reclaim the power she once had.
The Tiny Journalist Naomi Shihab Nye presents some of her best work in years in “The Tiny Journalist” . The collection opens with a powerful poem about Janna Jihad Ayyad, a Palestinian girl who began using her mother’s cellphone at the age of 7 to record anti-occupation protests on the West Bank after two members of her family were killed. Nye writes in Janna’s voice in many poems, drawing on material from Janna’s Facebook posts.
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