Black Under

Winner of the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition. The poem from which BLACK UNDER derives its...
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Author: Ashanti Anderson
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Language: English
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Black Under by Anderson, Ashanti

Black Under

$26.84

Black Under

$26.84
Author: Ashanti Anderson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Winner of the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition. The poem from which BLACK UNDER derives its title opens with a resounding declaration: "I am black and black underneath." These words are an anthem that reverberates throughout Ashanti Anderson's debut short collection. We feel them as we navigate her poems' linguistic risks and shifts and trumpets, as we straddle scales that tip us toward trauma's still-bloody knife in one turn then into cutting wit and shrewd humor in the next. We hear them amplified through Anderson's dynamic voice, which sings of anguish and atrocities and also of discovery and beauty.


BLACK UNDER layers outward perception with internal truth to offer an almost-telescopic examination of the redundancies-and incongruences-of marginalization and hypervisibility. Anderson torques the contradictions of oppression, giving her speakers the breathing room to discover their own agency. In these pages, declarations are reclamations, and joy is not an aspiration but a birthright.



Author: Ashanti Anderson
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press, Inc.
Published: 09/28/2021
Pages: 30
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.13lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.67w x 0.16d
ISBN: 9781625570185

About the Author
Anderson, Ashanti: - Ashanti Anderson (she/her) is a Black Queer Disabled poet, screenwriter, and playwright. Her debut short poetry collection, BLACK UNDER, is the winner of the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition at Black Lawrence Press. Her poems have appeared in World Literature Today, POETRY magazine, and elsewhere in print and on the web.

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