And My Blood Sang

By Maia Brown-Jackson

"In And My Blood Sang, Maia Brown-Jackson harnesses the rawness of spirit and the rage that ricochets through each and every available vessel of the body. The poetry practice of reframing kintsugi as a reverse blackout poetry style is the golden thread that binds together each of these poems into an alchemical force that bends and folds darkness into something that shimmers: the open wound that affects your gait as you retrace your own heavy footsteps in the dark, dripping and smearing shreds of yourself along the path as you find your way back, forcing the fear of the unknown into something tangible you can touch, grab hold of, and use to lead yourself back out of the long-corrupted labyrinthine passages as Brown-Jackson's words illuminate the reawakening you seek.
"Brown-Jackson's voice is an incredible and vital one in the contemporary poetry landscape with a particularly acute resilience in the face of the violent and turbulent world we currently live in. I would certainly place the work alongside such visionary and luminary poets as Richard Siken, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, and Audre Lorde, for their confessional styles, willingness to confront uncomfortable truths, and alchemising power to transform the brutal and ruthless into something ornate and intricate." -- critic Ryan Stephen Thornton

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CMWZVQ4H
• ISBN13: 9798866889297
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"