Martheaus Perkins

The Grace of Black Mothers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Carried within Martheaus Perkins' The Grace of Black Mothers are the many howls of lost children and their martyrized mothers. This debut collection brings a lyrical reckoning on behalf of dismembered dreams by boldly finding grace through our Black mothers, aunties, and grannies. The work invites the reader into a yard where "whisper-thin soul-jazz drips over America" to flip through a Nile-long family album. Mamie Till-Mobley, Sybrina Fulton, Harriet Tubman, and the author's own mothers guide us as we "wander streets like cartographers of poverty" and hold our "promises to come home." Perkins shows his craft by shapeshifting through fighting game menus, optometry charts, screenplays, pirate codes, social media threads, and forms that embody dreams themselves. The Grace of Black Mothers is a collection drenched in complexity and nuance: homemade heroes and villains, justice and fabrication, wit and risk, resurrection and erasure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trio House Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949487435
• Artikelnr.: 74772141

Autorenporträt

Martheaus Perkins was born to a single mother in Center, Texas. After a childhood in and out of homes in Houston, he graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University as a first-generation student. He is the recipient of the Robert Creeley Memorial Award judged by John Keene, the President's Award by Voices, the GMU Rinehart Fiction Award, and the Robert Raymond Scholarship. He co-edits BRAWL Lit and teaches literature at George Mason University. Currently, he lives in the DMV with fellow writers of the "International House of Poets." The name "Martheaus" is a collection of each woman who helped raise him: "Mar-" for his grandmother's nickname, "-Thea-" for his mother's name, and "-us" for his big aunties.