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We Are not Wearing Helmets: Poems

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We Are Not Wearing Helmets is a collection of political love poems rendered through the eyes of Cheryl Boyce‑Taylor, an immigrant living in New York City. For many women of color, aging in America means experiencing a lack of proper medical treatment, inhumane living conditions, poor nutrition, and often isolation. Many seniors feel thrown away, useless, and vulnerable. These poems challenge the injustices of ageism, racism, and oppression with rage, forgiveness, honor, and endurance. During these rough political times, they are salve and balm.

Born in Trinidad and having grown up in Queens, Boyce‑Taylor creates a framework for her own experience out of the life experiences and work of beloved Black women in history. She salutes the women who have lifted her, including Audre Lorde, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ntozake Shange, and Winnie Mandela, as well as her mother, Eugenia Boyce, and her beloved daughter‑in‑law, Deisha Head Taylor.

The poems in this collection are unapologetic, fierce, and confrontational while remaining caring and intimate. They stand strong in the face of adversity and boldly demand what is owed while still honoring and cherishing what is loved.

Table of Contents:
   Devouring the Light, 1968
    First Amendment Rights
    Landay for Fannie Lou Hamer
    We Are Not Wearing Helmets
    Lessons: A Zuihitsu
    Harvest
    No More War Poems
    Pigeon Point, Tobago
    Crossing Rivers
    Cry
    Huevos Rancheros and Frozen Margaritas
    Lottery Brooklyn
    Red White Blue
    When Sky Fell
    Huffy
    Call Me Monkey
    June Plums
    Leo
    Road to Banjul
    Lemon Verbena
    Moonflower
    Glory
    Mama
    First Born
    What to Do on the First Anniversary of Your Son’s Death
    Tenth Grade Fly
            Heirloom Corn
    For Alem
    A Woman Speaks
    1962, Everybody Pretty
    For the Love of Tennyson & Langston
    On McKinley Drive
    Last European Trip I Took with Mother
    Change Purse Filled with Foreign Coins
    You Braid Your Hair
    The Home You Left Long Ago
    A Cento for Winnie Mandela
    Ntozake’s Crimson Orchids
    Rodlyn’s Roots
    End of Lent
    Howl for Maya Angelou
    Maya Calling June Jordan
    Adrienne
    Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor
    Brave
    Confessions of a Brooklyn Poet
    Call Her Delphinium
    Revolution
    Beloved Country
    I Prefer
    On Repeat
    Praise for Her Noisy Laughter
    How to Make Art
    Trade – In A Pandemic
    Saturn Returning
    I am Nothing Compared To
    Here: In Our Time of War
    Dreamscape
    Let’s Make a Drum: Let There Be Singing
    Biography  
 


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780810144231
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press
  • Height: 223 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 170 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0810144239
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Poems
  • Width: 149 mm


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