Phases: Poems

Phases: PoemsIn this electrifying debut poetry collection written with the ferocity of Rita Dove's groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah a critically acclaimed award winning talent explores a wide range of emotions, from anxiety to ecstasy reflecting the moon's phases, from Waning Gibbous to Full. Both intimate and intricately structured Tramaine Suubi's remarkable work is inspired by the moon its phases' effects on water, the Earth, and our bodies. Phases relishes in

It's a rich man's car

Bingham Prize * Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Because there's something in Red Wood that the towns' people are hiding

On Juneteenth vitally revises conventional renderings of Texas and national history

do something bad

Code Noir ranges in style from contemporary realism to dystopian literature

Uncannily clear

which she calls 1Q84 --"Q is for 'question mark

Jane Eyre has no interest in a husband

Touching and powerful

including her older sister Cristina

friendship and desire