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Good Dress by Brittany Rogers (2024, Trade Paperback)

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"In her debut poetry collection, Brittany Rogers explores the audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, Good Dress witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences.

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PublisherTin House Books, LLC

ISBN-101959030833

ISBN-139781959030836

eBay Product ID (ePID)28065127743

Product Key Features

Book TitleGood Dress

Number of Pages96 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicAmerican / African American, Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, Lgbt

GenrePoetry

AuthorBrittany Rogers

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight5 oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-025400

ReviewsThis is a collection about being Black and audacious and beautiful and how all these things can be one in the same. It is also about the complicated experience of being a Black girl in a world that seeks to disconnect us from our wonder, our desire and, ultimately, our selves., Through lush imagery, slick syntax, elegant diction, and play with form, Brittany Rogers is a generous and keenly observant poet. Good Dress knows Detroit and all its migrations: the East Sidedness of its own language; its Down South tell-it-like-it-is because I love you and mean it. Night deer in the pastoral of empty house lots, the heaven of a corner deli that knows you by your name. These poems force us to consider what we mean when we say home, and who gets to tell that story. Exploring gentrification, queer eroticism, motherhood, and church-girl-blues, Brittany Rogers makes it her business to insist we look at it all-- the catastrophe and the beauty--and leave none of its wisdom behind. This self-assured, dazzling debut has a story to tell. And says it with its chest, its whole mouth., Rogers' electric debut enfolds us in what we didn't know we needed to understand about how we can move in the world, to dance and roller skate and cry, to imagine ourselves adorned passionately with life., An exuberant celebration of Black abundance. . . . there's nary a reader that will read Brittany's poetry and remain untouched., Spectacular. . . . Amazing. . . . An elixir. . . . In every poem there are layers of phrasing and scene creation that astound.... Brittany Rogers better know this book is super fine. Purple dress fine. Lil' Kim and Aaliyah fine. And exactly on time., Includes place writing on Detroit and a challenging of heteronormativity in its contemplations of pleasure and intimacy. The poems tackle class, home, and Black womanhood., What does it mean to want, to desire nice things, when you have been told poverty will not allow you softness and ease? Rogers's work, unflinching in its precision, confronts and refuses a simple answer to this question., Masterful. . . . Richly detailed, supremely vulnerable self-portrait, tracing her growth from adolescence and hailing the strong female lineage from which she emerged., A once-in-a-generation debut collection. . . . Brittany Rogers is already a legend and the first of a new kind of poet for whom truth is a posture of both the line and the mouth. A poet come to wake us up for good.

SynopsisFollowing the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers's Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems engage with memory, time, interiority, and community. They also nudge tenderly toward curiosity: What does it mean to belong to a person, to a city? Can intimacy and romance be found outside the heteronormative confines of partnership? And in what ways can the pursuit of pleasure be an anchor that returns us to ourselves?, Winner of the Lambda Award for Bisexual Poetry "A once-in-a-generation debut."--Angel Nafis "This self-assured, dazzling debut has a story to tell."--Aricka Foreman Following the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers's Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems engage with memory, time, interiority, and community. They also nudge tenderly toward curiosity: What does it mean to belong to a person, to a city? Can intimacy and romance be found outside the heteronormative confines of partnership? And in what ways can the pursuit of pleasure be an anchor that returns us to ourselves?, Winner of the Lambda Award for Bisexual Poetry "A once-in-a-generation debut."--Angel Nafis "This self-assured, dazzling debut has a story to tell."--Aricka Foreman

LC Classification NumberPS3618.O45646G66