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She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks by M. NourbeSe Philip
5.0
Reading good poetry can make you feel like you've just learned an entirely new truth about the universe and our existence within it. Nourbese feels like she sees things on dimensions that are inaccessible to the rest of us, introducing the world to what liberated postcolonial poetry can feel like. Evie Shockley describes Philips' incisive vision the best:
"The poet can take a word and hold it up to the light to see what it obscures, what it refracts, what it illuminates, can blow air into it to hear its song, its call, its howl; can crack it open; can use it to open us" (i)
"The poet can take a word and hold it up to the light to see what it obscures, what it refracts, what it illuminates, can blow air into it to hear its song, its call, its howl; can crack it open; can use it to open us" (i)