but it is also both gorgeous and familiar
mess is a unit of measure
Piggie Sue the Boston Terrier and her fluffy feline sidekick
and finding a way back to feeling
The melodrama receives respect
Dope Calisthenics Author|Tracy Moore but it is also bothSylvia Jones's sophomore collection examines the pressure exerted on working class Black life by spectacle, debt, inheritance, and the market's endless demand for performance. The poems move through Baltimore, television, retail language, protest remnants, and borrowed speech, tracking how public feeling hardens into product and how survival becomes a style others learn to consume. Class aspiration and class entrapment, the theater of mobility, and