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Poetry. African & African American Studies. Finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. Sasha Banks's searing debut poetry collection america, MINE is a radical conjuring of a post-white supremacist United States of America. Blending speculative poetics and historiography, Banks creates a rich revisionist account of America, in which its most fraught institutions collapse and Uhmareka emerges --layering a new, strange, and graphic landscape with the textures of supernatural happenings, ghosts, creatures, and inconsistent recollections of American histories. Spurred on by the trauma of and lack of local and national accountability for Michael Brown's murder in 2014, Banks mixes magical realism and keen rage to interrogate white supremacy's narratives, challenge its prerogatives, and usher in a future where it can thrive no longer. In so doing, these Afrofuturist poems by turns summon historical and archetypal Black figures like Fannie Lou Hamer and Aunt Jemima to the National Mall; rouse the ghosts of Tituba, Rekia Boyd, and Cynthia Wesley at the Canfield Green Apartments in Ferguson; and describe a period of raucous destruction before Uhmareka is ushered in by the strange and mysterious forces that herald it. Will Black lives thrive in the re-envisioned Uhmareka, or will they struggle to balance new freedom with the lingering fear of the old ways' return? In america, MINE, Sasha Banks demands that we consider what possibility may spring forth from such imagining.

 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ co-im-press (April 24, 2020)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 76 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1947918044

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1947918047

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.25 x 9 inches

America, Mine by Sasha Banks

SKU: 978-1947918047
$30.00Price
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