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Black Girl, Call Home
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  • Published: 9 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9780593346877
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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Black Girl, Call Home

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9 Mar 2021
Audiobook
9 Mar 2021
Paperback
1 June 2021
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A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Refinery 29 • She Reads • The Everygirl • Career Contessa

“You are carrying in your hands a Black woman’s heart.”—Jericho Brown, author of Pulitzer Prize winner The Tradition

“[Mans’] lucid and lyrical lines are as undeniable as those of a pop song yet as arresting as only spoken word artistry can be.”—O, the Oprah Magazine

From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity.
 
With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America—and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman.

Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.


* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of images from the book.
  • Published: 9 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9780593346877
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
Categories:

About the author

Jasmine Mans

Jasmine Mans is a queer Black poet and performance artist from Newark, New Jersey. Jasmine’s debut poetry collection, Black Girl, Call Home published in 2021 to critical and commercial acclaim, and was named one of the most anticipated books of the season by Oprah, TIME, Vogue, and more. The collection went on to receive the prestigious Stonewall Honor Award, as well as a BCALA Award in the Poetry category. Jasmine lives in Brooklyn New York, where she operates her award-winning business Buy Weed from Women.
portrait photo of Jasmine Mans

Praise for Black Girl, Call Home

Praise for Black Girl, Call Home:

  • "This book is a haven for all the black daughters out there, hoping to make sense of the power and powerlessness in their bodies, the connection to others' bodies, and the moments of everyday life that comprise so much of our identities."--NYT bestselling author Morgan Jerkins

  • "Here be poems that explore the lush interiors of black queer womanhood and extent that particular and wonderful love to Black girls and boys in verses of justice, mourning, wonder and glory. Mans takes up the tools of Brooks and Sanchez into her good hands and chisels us an urgent and grand work, proving why she's the favorite poet of all the girls in the back of the bus."--Danez Smith, author of National Book Award finalist for poetry Don't Call Us Dead

  • "Each poem is a meditation on a moment, a memory, and a history that guides the reader through the experience of Black womanhood in a way I've not experienced before. These poems both explode and glimmer on the page. They demand to be read, to be shared, to be revisited time and time again."--Clint Smith, author of NAACP Image Award finalist Counting Descent