A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing

Posted on 08 June 2018 by DaMaris B. Hill

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 History Title for the season Booklist s Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction titles for the year BookRiot s 50 Must Read Poetry Collections Most Anticipated Books of the Year The Rumpus, Nylon A revelatory work in the tradition of Claudia Rankine sCitizen, DaMaris Hill s searing and powerful narrative in verse bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration It is costly to stay free and appear sane From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair, and isolation in order to lodge their protests In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, DaMaris Hill honors their experiences with at times harrowing, at times hopeful responses to her heroes, illustrated with black and white photographs throughout.For black American women, the experience of being bound has taken many forms from the bondage of slavery to the Reconstruction era criminalization of women from the brutal constraints of Jim Crow to our own era s prison industrial complex, where between 1980 and 2014, the number of incarcerated women increased by 700% For those women who lived and died resisting the dehumanization of confinement physical, social, intellectual the threat of being bound was real, constant, and lethal.In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, Hill presents bitter, unflinching history that artfully captures the personas of these captivating, bound yet unbridled African American women Hill s passionate odes to Zora Neale Hurston, Lucille Clifton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt, and others also celebrate the modern day inheritors of their load and light, binding history, author, and reader in an essential legacy of struggle The Sentencing Project New Download A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing [ Author ] DaMaris B. Hill [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Damaris B Hill writes the poetry of the bound black woman across the ages in this haunting, powerful collection What you will read here is not just poetry, though This book offers an education This book bears witness This book is a reckoning.The speed of light is almost equivalent to love come in a hurry There are thieves in the temples In the 1862nd year of our Lord, there were 241 lynched torn from wives arms and wedding Chambers Multiply that by the rope Count the trees they strung from The torches All of this done under the armor of white supremacy mob violence.This is just one of the poems written for Ida B Wells.An extremely powerful book I have never read anything like this Written in five different sections, explain The speed of light is almost equivalent to love come in a hurry There are thieves in the temples In the 1862nd year of our Lord, there were 241 lynched torn from wives arms and wedding Chambers Multiply that by the rope Count the trees they strung from The torches All of this done under the armor of white supremacy mob violence.This is just one of the poems written for Ida B Wells.An extremely powerful book I have never read anything like this Written in five different sections, explained in the pr...I honestly don t know if I have the proper words to describe this book I have never read a book of poetry like this It truly is powerful and I walked away withthan I expected Hill definitely schooled me on women history that I knew nothing about The read is quick for 163 pages and...3.5 starsThis compact but potent collection of poetry is so good that it hurts DeMaris B Hill spills America s historical shame across the printed page with the articulate rage and power of the generations she writes about My thanks go to Bloomsbury and Net Galley for the review copy This collection becomes available to the public January 15, 2019 The keys to reading Hill s poetry are in the introduction, and in additional brief introductions at the beginning of each poem These are broken down into This compact but potent collection of poetry is so good that it hurts DeMaris B Hill spills America s historical shame across the printed page with the articulate rage and power of the generations she writes about My thanks go to Bloomsbury and Net Galley for the review copy ...A very powerful unique book that isthan poetry,than history It s a fast read and I don t think I ve ever read anything like it.Poetry is tricky for me Still working on how to talk about it Loved the historical context and prose but couldn t always connect with the poemsa me thing than the poems Black women are powerful beyond any measure ever credited to them and that is loud and clear in this collection Hill is expert ...amazingive never read anything like this Dr Hill is brilliant and magnificent I learned so many things about women I have never heard of Powerful.In this poetry tribute, Hill celebrates the legacies of black women who resisted oppression and refused to be silenced throughout US history Each woman has a black and white photo, a short biographical page about her and then a poem to celebrate her life Hill s subjects range from well known activists like Assata Shakur to women I had never heard of like Ruby McCollum I m grateful to Hill for highlighting the strength of these women in all their rage and passion and will certainly be learning In this poetry tribute, Hill celebrates the legacies of black women who resisted oppression and refused to be silenced ...I really should ve read the description better before purchasing because I was not aware that this was a poetry book Anyway, despite my unawareness, I thoroughly enjoyed this book The poems were powerful, beautiful, and often heart breaking, as they are odes to incarcerated black women over the ages I definitely want to doresearch on the women who were portrayed at the prelude of each chapter Their short biographies were interesting and I would like to learnabout their storie...

08 June 2018

DaMaris B. Hill