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Working the Roots

Working the Roots

Bennett, Amanda

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798349337321
Publisher: Querencia Press, LLC
Published: Jul 11 2025
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When I think of the kind of writing that really moves me, I think of the elements present in Bennett's poetry: honesty about Black women's interior lives, clarity (because we don't have time to talk around a thing), and a mean metaphor. Amanda Bennett has written a poetry collection squarely rooted in the legacy of Black feminists like Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and June Jordan: this is my favorite kind of poetry. The feeling present in these poems welcomes you in to experience the world as the writer does, where black is a place we carry and difficult women are like dynamite. Working the Roots is a book everyone should read, if for no other reason than we all need a little vulnerability to survive this world, and each other.

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