TheCollectionPlate Format: TradePB

Allen,Kendra

ISBN 10: 0063048485 / ISBN 13: 9780063048485

Published by Harper Collins Publishers

About this Item

Unread copy in mint condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TheCollectionPlate Format: TradePB
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• ISBN 10: 0063048485
• ISBN 13: 9780063048485
• Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice 

Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies—and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility

Both formally exciting and a delight to read, The Collection Plate is a testament to Allen’s place as the voice of a generation—and a witness to how we come into being in the twenty-first century. 

About the Author

Kendra Allen is the author of the memoir Fruit Punch, the poetry collection The Collection Plate, and the essay collection When You Learn the Alphabet, which won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction, awarded by Kiese Laymon. She writes to music column “Make Love in My Car” for Southwest Review. She was born and raised in Dallas.