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    Say Her Name: Poems to Empower
    Say Her Name: Poems to Empower
    Say Her Name: Poems to Empower
    Audiobook1 hour

    Say Her Name: Poems to Empower

    Written by Zetta Elliott

    Narrated by Channie Waites

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    About this audiobook

    From award-winning author Zetta Elliott comes a stirring and powerful poetry collection that reveals the beauty, danger, and magic found at the intersection of race and gender.

    Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of
    voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls.

    This collection features forty-nine powerful poems, four of which are tribute poems inspired by the works of Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Phillis Wheatley.

    This provocative collection will move every reader to reflect, respond—and act.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 14, 2020
    ISBN9781980061885
    Say Her Name: Poems to Empower
    Author

    Zetta Elliott

    Born in Canada, Zetta Elliott moved to Brooklyn in 1994 to pursue her PhD in American studies at New York University. Her poetry and essays have been published in several anthologies, and her plays have been staged in New York, Chicago, and Cleveland. She wrote the award-winning picture book Bird and the young adult novel A Wish After Midnight. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

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    • 5/5
      Listen to each poem and identifying the allusions were great. However Chapter 50 (conclusion of the book), was the ABSOLUTE best part!! It was POWERFUL!
    • 5/5
      That was phenomenal ? Beautiful poems and an even more beautiful narration. A must read for everyone.
    • 4/5
      This collection of poems was inspired, according to the author's Introduction, by “examples of Black excellence reported online alongside accounts of appalling brutality.” This book, she explains, is her way of bearing witness. She ends the Introduction frankly: “We do have allies, but some days it feels like all we have is each other. This book of poetry is for us. I love us.”The poems are for the most part affirming, and begin with my favorite in the collection, “Black Girl Miracle.” It addresses a black girl, explaining:“You are moreThan magicYou are a miracleBecause we were neverMeant to surviveNot as human beings….”One, called “How to Resist,” ends with the heartrending coda: “most of all: feel somethingfeel somethingfeel something”The last poem, called “Blessing,” is also a favorite of mine in this collection. (Okay, okay, it’s actually hard to pick favorites - they are all truly excellent.). “Blessing” begins: “May you have a resilient spirit,And a compassionate heart,The desire to heal,And the will to forgive.”This one has a strong coda too, made up of three stanzas I want to cite in full, because they resonated so much with me: “Indictments are rareLike snow in the SaharaOr cops behind barsInnocence belongs To other people’s childrenOurs are born condemnedStop killing us stopKilling us stop killing usStop killing us STOP.”Not all the 49 poems in this book are by Elliott, although most of them are. She includes one work each by Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and Phillis Wheatley.Boldly-colored Illustrations by Loveis Wise convey strength and resilience, complementing the message of the text.Evaluation: This excellent collection of poems, celebrating black women and girls, is so needed in these times, and is both stirring and uplifting.
    • 5/5
      Powerful, uplifting, shaming, defying poems! Every single poem in this collection spoke to me as a woman and as a white woman who feels shame, curiosity, and womanhood. Some poems felt universal while others felt very particular. Excellent collection!