I wanted to share a Poetry Book with you called Thick with Trouble (Penguin Poets) written by Amber McBride (Author) I received a copy of the book in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links. If you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the items you purchase.
A collection of poems about home, hauntings, desire, survival, and Black womanhood. I read the entire book but some of the Poems left me confused but that shouldn’t stop you from reading Thick With Trouble because it shows Poems being shared with Tarot Cards something else I know nothing about.
Thick With Trouble is about black womanhood in the American South parents who are #Homeschooling there children could share this book with High School student in both a History Class and also Language Arts when studying Poetry.
About the book:
From National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanhood in the American South
In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being “trouble”—difficult, unruly, fearsome, defiant—is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the Hoodoo spiritual tradition and organized via reimagined tarot cards, this collection becomes a chorus of unapologetic women who laugh, cry, mesmerize, and bring outsiders to their knees.
Summoning the supernatural to examine death, rebirth, and life outside the male gaze, Amber McBride has crafted a haunting, spellbinding, and strikingly original collection of poems that reckon with the force and complexity of Black womanhood.
Meet the Author: Amber McBride
Amber McBride estimates she reads about 100 books a year. Her work has been published in literary magazines including Ploughshares and Provincetown Arts. Her debut young adult novel, Me (Moth) was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won the 2022 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, among many other accolades. She is an Assistant Professor at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, Virgina.
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Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
