Who's Your Daddy by Arisa White (English) Paperback Book

Description: Who's Your Daddy by Arisa White A lyrical, genre-bending coming-of-age tale featuring a queer, Black, Guyanese American woman who, while seeking to define her own place in the world, negotiates an estranged relationship with her father. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A lyrical, genre-bending coming-of-age tale featuring a queer, Black, Guyanese American woman who, while seeking to define her own place in the world, negotiates an estranged relationship with her father. Author Biography Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College. She is the author of four books, including the poetry collection Youre the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, and coauthor of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, winner of the Maine Literary Book Award for Young Peoples Literature and the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Middle-Grade Nonfiction. She serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Press. Find her at arisawhite.com. Review Arisa White channels the ear of Zora Neale Hurston, the tongue of Toni Cade Bambara, and the eye of Alice Walker in the wondrous Whos Your Daddy. She channels Guyanese proverbs, Shango dreams, games of hide and seek, and memories of an absentee father to shape the spiritual condition. What she makes is "a maze that bobs and weaves a new style whenever theres a demand to love." What she gives us are archives, allegories, and wholly new songs. -Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins ". . . absence breeds madness, an irreconcilable relationship you know is there but cant call it by its name . . ." In these crisply narrative poems, which unreel like heart-wrenching fragments of film, Arisa White not only names that gaping chasm between father and daughter, but graces it with its true and terrible face. Every little colored girl who has craved the constant of her fathers gaze will recognize this quest, which the poet undertakes with lyric that is tender and unerring. -Patricia Smith, Incendiary Art Somewhere nearing its end, Arisa White says of Whos Your Daddy, its "a portrait of absence and presence, a story, a tale, told in patchwork fashion . . ." This exactly says what Whos Your Daddy is, though it doesnt say all it takes to do justice to the mythic paradox an absent parent guarantees a child, young or grown, or what it takes to live with and undergo such birthright. Theres not only a fathers absence and presence, theres a mother who says "you raise your daughters, and love your sons," there are stepfathers, uncles, aunts, cousins, a grandmother, brothers, lovers, all of whom leave their marks and give and take love. Surrounding the whole book hovers the questions do I forgive him, and is forgiveness possible? This beautifully, honestly conceived genius of a book shook me to the core. -Dara Wier, You Good Thing Details ISBN1936767619 Author Arisa White Publisher Augury Books Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1936767619 ISBN-13 9781936767618 DEWEY 811/.6 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-03-01 Imprint Augury Books Pages 138 UK Release Date 2021-03-01 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-03-01 NZ Release Date 2021-03-01 US Release Date 2021-03-01 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131259300;

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