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The Glory Gets
A collection of Poetry by Honorée Fannone Jeffers
Subgenres:
- African American,
- Intergenerational Trauma,
- Southern US
This book is for you if you're into...
- Blues poetry that riffs on African American history and womanhood
- Poems wrestling with wisdom and the secrets women keep
- Spiritual journeys guided by the legacy of Lucille Clifton
Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)
In her three previous, award-winning collections of blues poetry, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers has explored themes of African American history, Southern culture, and intergenerational trauma. Now, in her fourth and most accomplished collection, Jeffers turns to the task of seeking and reconciling the blues and its three movements—identification, exploration, and resolution—with wisdom.
Poems in The Glory Gets ask, "What happens on the road to wisdom? What now in this bewildering place?" Using the metaphor of "gets"—the concessional returns of living—Jeffers travels this fraught yet exhilarating journey, employing unexpected improvisations while navigating womanhood.
The spirit and spirituality of her muse, the late poet Lucille Clifton, guide the poet through the treacherous territories other women have encountered and survived yet kept secret from their daughters.
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