Bury My Clothes

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Roger Bonair-Agard. Bury My Clothes

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Praise for Bury My Clothes

“These poems offer up a speech textured with both the violence of racial construction and the complicated gorgeousness born out of survival and adaptation. These poems insist on the beauty of the darknesses we are bound by, and mean to help us live by reminding us: there is no crevice of grief or grace where something does not bloom.”

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and a grandmother who “collared [her husband] in her massive stone fists // and heaved him into a corner, so my mother could not be abused.”

We shouldn’t be beguiled into thinking that the mother’s lesson in manhood is just in fists, for these are the violent exceptions to an education she gives the speaker about agency, power, and the beauty of one’s own dark body. She chastises a sister (or cousin) who has shaved off the speaker’s hair:

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