What Had Happened Was - Paperback
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What Had Happened Was - Paperback
$25.87
by Therí Alyce Pickens (Author)
In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life, popular culture, and history to individual encounters with emotion, love, and chronic disability, Pickens crafts and questions the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we want to be. Throughout, Pickens mines the formal structures and the play of Black English within the lives and afterlives of Harriet Tubman, Mary J. Blige, Lil' Kim, Breonna Taylor, and figments of our collective imagination. Her singular poetic voice effortlessly flows between what she knows and what she's heard and between everyday Black conversation and her work in cultural criticism and disability studies. Traveling at the speed of thought, Pickens explores a praxis of storytelling governed by the places where truths and fables kiss.
Author Biography
Therí Alyce Pickens is Charles A. Dana Professor of English and Africana at Bates College and author of Black Madness:: Mad Blackness, also published by Duke University Press, and New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States.
Number of Pages: 96
Dimensions: 0.3 x 9.9 x 7 IN
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
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