{"product_id":"we-want-our-bodies-back-poems-isbn-9780062955289","title":"We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“WE WANT\u003cbr\u003eOUR BODIES BACK URGES BLACK WOMEN TO DEMAND BETTER FROM MEN.” -ESSENCE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“MASTER\u003cbr\u003ePOET JESSICA CARE MOORE GIFTS US THIS LATEST COLLECTION OF SHARP, SMART AND\u003cbr\u003eDEFIANT PIECES.” -MS. MAGAZINE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBOOKS BY\u003cbr\u003eBLACK WOMEN WE CAN’T WAIT TO READ IN 2020 -REFINERY29\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past two decades, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both Black women’s creative and intellectual power, and express the pain, sadness, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race. Fierce and passionate, Jessica Care moore argues that Black women spend their lives building a physical and emotional shelter to protect themselves from misogyny, criminalization, hatred, stereotypes, sexual assault, objectification, patriarchy, and death threats. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Want Our Bodies Back\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration—and defiant stance against—these many attacks.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWe Want Our Bodies Back\u003c\/em\u003e is a lyric encyclopedia, a psalm book, a conflagration of fire and fierce black joy. And jessica Care moore is the 21st Century poet warrior America desperately needs.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“jessica Care moore is my hero. Powerful, beautiful, excellent and unapologetically Black. She is who I want to be when I grow up. Her writing allows us to be seen for who we truly are.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTalib Kweli, rapper, entrepreneur, and activist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There are many times that jessica Care moore's work has made me spend hours figuring out how much of her work would be socially acceptable to steal. I really wish she had put this out while I was writing my last album.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoots Riley, director, emcee, Sorry to Bother You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Imbued with heartache, anger, celebration, and rejuvenation, the poems in \u003cem\u003eWe Want Our Bodies Back \u003c\/em\u003ereflect the sui generis funktified flyness that jessica Care moore has exemplified as an independent artist, activist, publisher, and curator for nearly a quarter-century. Perhaps the premier resistance writer in America today, moore furnishes luminous poetic signposts for our treacherous journey through the gloomy landscapes of 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century America.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTony Bolden, author of Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWe Want Our Bodies Back \u003c\/em\u003eis a soaring resistance\/upright bass\/instrument of war. Here are poems that seek out my pain. A soldier allowed their childhood, a people returned to their Detroit. In a time of cobalt-imperialism, someone is still writing songs about God. Yes, revolution is exhausting, but we make countries; you and I.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTongo Eisen Martin, author, Heaven is All Goodbyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Our plump, perfect, shea-buttered bodies. Our sun-scarred sinewy selves. Our stout tree-trunks, our walls. Our muscled forearms, our thick thighs, our phenomenal asses. Our weary hands. Forever, black women have shouldered the weight of the same world that denies their power and sway. The inimitable jessica Care moore—who has spent her life singing the most forceful notes of our soundtrack—is calling an end to that \u003cem\u003enow\u003c\/em\u003e.  If \u003cem\u003eWe Want Our Bodies Back\u003c\/em\u003e empowers you, it was meant to. If this book frightens you, it should.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatricia Smith, poet, playwright, author of Incendiary Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“moore provides a blueprint for how to veer outside of fixed expectations and still remain unflinching in her love for herself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mantle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889030983909,"sku":"NP9780062955289","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062955289.jpg?v=1730230347","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/we-want-our-bodies-back-poems-isbn-9780062955289","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}