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You're the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
You're the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened | Arisa White
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Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Poetry. Angular, 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 Tracie Morris. "White's attentive word substitutions and range of organized forms, lithe anecdotes, and disturbed resonances put us in the middle of living a realized, intelligent life of the senses." YOU'RE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING THAT HAPPENED works through intersectional encounters with gender, identity, and human barbarism, landing deftly and defiantly in beauty.
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African American lesbian poet Arisa White has created vibrant poems that incorporate and rehabilitate terms from around the world that are used to describe queers. Mashing cookies; manly shoes; beechnut; rooster etc. In the 10-page section that affected me most, the poems are about a cousin who died. It was so sad that I was rocking my body as I read. #LGBTQ #poetry

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