Spill : scenes of black feminist fugitivity

Title:

Author:

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982- author.

Summary:

"In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs offers an alternative approach to Black feminist literary criticism, historiography, and the interactive practice of relating to the words of Black feminist thinkers. Gumbs not only speaks to the spiritual, bodily, and otherworldly experience of Black women but allows readers to imagine new possibilities for poetry as a portal for understanding and deepening feminist theory."-- Publisher

Contents:

How she knew -- How she spelled it -- How she left -- How she survived until then -- What she did not say -- What he was thinking -- Where she ended up -- The witnesses the wayward the waiting -- How we know -- The way -- A note.

Physical Description:

xii, 163 pages ; 22 cm

Genre:

Poetry.

Subject Term:

Feminism -- Poetry.

Women, Black -- Poetry.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Publication Date:

2016

ISBN:

9780822362562

9780822362722

Publication Information:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Call Number:

811.6 GUMBS

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003759928	New Adult Nonfiction	811.6 GUMBS	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

In Spill , self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs offers an alternative approach to Black feminist literary criticism, historiography, and the interactive practice of relating to the words of Black feminist thinkers. Gumbs not only speaks to the spiritual, bodily, and otherworldly experience of Black women but also allows readers to imagine new possibilities for poetry as a portal for understanding and deepening feminist theory.

Author Notes

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and the Founder and Director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, an educational program based in Durham, North Carolina.

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

Gumbs calls herself a queer black troublemaker and black feminist love evangelist, and she lives up to her own billing in this debut collection. "The ground shakes with us/ the gathering women/ grows rich grows brown grows deep," she says in the opening poem, and throughout she braids the personal and political. "Who spent your childhood up with barefoot errands," she asks, then afterward explains, "you will know me by the curling iron burn inside my thigh." Inspired by literary critic Hortense Spillers, the poems here are informed by a rigorous understanding of gendered violence and racism but take off in their own right. VERDICT Gumbs's writing has luscious urgency and rhythmic drive, which will make it of interest beyond its titular audience. © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.