You're the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White

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You're the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa WhiteAngular, smart, and fearless, Arisa White's newest collection takes its titles from words used internationally as hate speech against gays and lesbians, reworking, re envisioning, and re embodying language as a conduit for art, love, and understanding. "To live freely, observantly as a politically astute, sensually perceptive Queer Black woman is to be risk taker, at risk, a perceived danger to others and even dangerous to as oneself," writes poet

from his earliest collaborations with Derek Walcott

an aging Samuel Beckett prepares to throw the first pitch at Ebbets Field

"—Jewelle Gomez"Juliet P

and what's next

including some of today’s most important novelists

and lyric essays

it was for murder and rape

can the body deconstruct its own inheritance

and drawings

’” —Ama Codjoe

The atlas of SAY/MIRROR charts the islands of the poet and her mother's overlapping lives—unearthing the shared experiences of a single parent and only child

In the fall of 1956

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