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Presenting...Sister Noblues by Hattie Gossett

ralowe's review

5.0

this reads much more like her stuff in *this bridge called my back* and feels like a typical document of black feminism. overbearing male subjects, patriarchy, awful domestic scenes, relationships, families are all on critique. there are celebrations of life and the city, liberating tales of childhood self discovery through defiance, detailed commuter portraits, beautiful snapshots of black urban life and essential mythbuilding for the burgeoning black feminist subject. i love the style of her writing so much, the compound words, the comma non-delimited clusters of like terms. there's things that are tired on other poets at the time that make sense and work much better with her.