Every Morning A Foot Is Looking For My Neck -- Bonita Lee Penn, Paperback

Sometimes the cadence of our experiences cannot be expressed with traditional language and one must find a pace and rhythm that bellows what the mouth cannot. Bonita Lee Penn has done so with her chapbook of poems, Every Morning A Foot Is Looking For My Neck. Whether it is the thumping of a heart or a black body hitting the ground prematurely, her words elegize the cries of those who have left us in a violent frenzy and bring to light an all too familiar ache with wit, fire and a haunting truth.

In this striking debut collection, Penn is unrelenting in the pushback against a world that tries to force us "to press our- / selves into the recesses, into shadows / of our skin. to lay low, to be silent, to / shrink. disappear." These are vibrant and brilliant poems.

Author: Bonita Lee Penn
Publisher: Central Square Press
Published: 06/19/2019
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.09lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.08d
ISBN: 9781941604090