the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt Paperback Book 9780872869257

the delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through a radically human lensamp160quotmimi tempestt writes like a third testament in which God or our understanding finally matures Like a painter longed for by a million canvasses No peer No rival Just a cosmos enjoyed by friends alive in the most exciting mind of our generationquotTongo EisenMartin author of Blood on the FogWith a visual sensibility that explodes across the page the collection begins with microcosmic poems of personal struggle and spirals out to macrocosmic texts of social and political critique The book culminates in a fantastic account of the staging of a play with lifethreatening consequences