Build Yourself a Boat
Published on 4. June 2021
80 pages
978-1-60846-614-6 (ISBN)
Description
2019 National Book Award Longlist:
"Centering on black, female identity, [this is] an exquisite and thoughtful collection." -
Bustle
This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.
A finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
"With Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling." -Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro
This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.
A finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
"With Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling." -Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro
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Camonghne Felix, M.A. is a poet, political strategist, media junkie and cultural worker. She received an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, an MFA from Bard College, and has received Fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo and Poets House. The 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee is the author of the chapbook Yolk, and was recently listed by Black Youth Project as a "Black Girl From the Future You Should Know." Her first full-length collection of poems, Build Yourself a Boat, was a 2017 University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham & Pollak Prize finalist, and a 2017 Fordham University Poets Out Loud semi-finalist.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- Contents
- Lost Poem 4: Rx
- Contouring the Flattening
- Cutting w/ JB
- Imagine??? My Sister an Astronaut???
- Google Search Keywords:
- Things the Block Taught Me
- White House
- Statement from Camonghne Felix on the Murders of Jesse Washington, Stephon Clark and her Attempt to Understand the Psychology of Lynching:
- Thank God I Can't Drive
- Zimmerman Testimonies: Day 1
- Zimmerman Testimonies: Day 2
- Cutting w/ JB
- Google Search Keywords:
- Cutting w/ JB
- Trap Queen
- On Entropy
- Statement on Being Lonely vs. Alone
- Lost Poem #5: I Won't Even Ask Why
- Or, It's All in My Head
- Google Search Keywords:
- Lesson, Unmitigated
- No Relief
- DISCLAIMER
- Mirror Talk
- Police
- Grocery
- Sleeping on Adderall
- Zimmerman Testimonies: Day 4
- Tonya Harding's Fur Coats
- No Shade, Though
- "But in what way does the blending of two slightly different cells bring about such a renewal of life?" -Freud
- Cutting w/ JB
- After the Abortion, an Older White Planned Parenthood Volunteer Asks If My Husband Is Here & Squeezes My Thigh and Says, "You Made The Right Decision," and Then "Look What Could Happen If Trump Were President, I Mean, You Might Not Even Be Here."
- Beer Pong
- Zimmerman Testimonies: Day 5
- When I Say the Hood Made Me, I Mean:
- Willing in the Orisha
- "But there were times when you offered your consent with older men. You chose them & you were not afraid. Why not?"-Freud
- Yes, It Is Possible
- Acknowledgments
- About haymarket books
- Back Cover
