us mouth by Nikia Chaney

FREE SHIPPING us mouthby Nikia ChaneyPublication Date: March 2018Trade Paper; 112 pages; 5-1/4" x 8"ISBN 978-1-938753-27-5POETRY us mouth attempts to speak to the fracturing of intimate relationships, the importance of voice, song, and empathy as an instrument of connection and healing. The poems are filled with wordplay and rhythm to create an intensity of presence of various speakers who cry out in the pain and joy of being alive. “Poets in the West love space (s), white space, caligrams, margins to the right—us mouth has them all, and yet its emotional dynamics hews close to the essence of the blues. In this new collection, California’s Nikia Chaney opens wide a mouth that bravely, tactlessly, or hungrily decries the fecklessness of men; the anguish of women; their desire for love; and the family torn apart by lies, laws, divorce, violence. us mouth is about that “we” of Black people mostly, but that “we” includes all who desire sex and love…with its “whipped slant” and other memora