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Heavy is the Head

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Pub Date 1 Aug 2023 | Archive Date 16 Aug 2023

OwnVoices | Poetry & Verse

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This collection does not aim to heal anyone who reads it, but instead help them confront their own healing. Rather than sugar-coated bullets that enter you lightly, these poems are designed to hurt. They are for the girls with difficult names, the boys with softness at their core, and the people with neither. They are meant for the people who are Black, and the people who are not—because we are all tethered together by the heaviness of the human experience.

 

This collection does not aim to heal anyone who reads it, but instead help them confront their own healing. Rather than sugar-coated bullets that enter you lightly, these poems are designed to hurt...

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ISBN 9781771682978
PRICE US$16.99 (USD)
PAGES 128

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