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Patricia Frazier's Graphite is an ode to her grandmother and childhood home, the Ida B. Wells Projects, both which the poet lost to city- and state-sanctioned discrimination. The chapbook investigates loss and gentrification, particularly their effects on black young people from Chicago, whose political movement, resilience, and ability to make celebration after pain, drive these poems.
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The BreakBeat Poets series
About the BreakBeat Poets Series
The BreakBeat Poets series, curated by Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall, is committed to work that brings the aesthetic of hip-hop practice to the page. These books are a cipher for the fresh, with an eye always to the next. We strive to center and showcase some of the most exciting voices in literature, art, and culture.
BreakBeat Poets Series titles include:
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall
This Is Modern Art: A Play, Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic, edited by
Mahogany L. Browne, Jamila Woods, and Idrissa Simmonds
Mahogany L. Browne, Jamila Woods, and Idrissa Simmonds
Human Highlight, Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval
On My Way to Liberation, H. Melt
Black Queer Hoe, Britteney Black Rose Kapri
Citizen Illegal, José Olivarez
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me, edited by Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo
There Are Trans People Here, H. Melt
Commando, E’mon Lauren
Graphite
Haymarket Books
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
© 2018 Patricia Frazier
Published in 2018 by
Haymarket Books
P.O. Box 180165
Chicago, IL 60618
www.haymarketbooks.org
ISBN: 978-1-64259-001-2
Trade distribution:
In the US, Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, www.cbsd.com
In Canada, Publishers Group Canada, www.pgcbooks.ca
In the UK, Turnaround Publisher Services, www.turnaround-uk.com
All other countries, Ingram Publisher Services International,
[email protected]
[email protected]
This book was published with the generous support of Lannan Foundation and Wallace Action Fund.
Cover artwork by Fantasia A. Graham.
Cover design by Eric Kerl.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available.
They win sometimes, they lose sometimes, they’ve been injured, they’ve been happy, they’ve been sad, igno...
Table of contents
- Graphite Made It!
- Auditioning for the Role of Child with Teen Parent
- Theme Song About Blk Love in the Time of My
- Dorothy Goes Low-End Crazy
- Cousin Clarence Says Amen
- Twinkie Sold Tacos
- My Uncle Was Born
- God Is a Cosmetologist
- A Poem for Englewood
- Englewood Teaches a Lesson in Pronunciation
- Graphite Receives Her Eviction
- Assata
- Scott, in the Seat Behind Me, Compliments My Hair After Taking Pictures and Complaining About Its Capacity
- FUBU
- I Am Windy City
- What to Do When the Wells Is Turned into a Facebook
- On Foe Nem Grave
- Funeral Scene Where It Isn’t Raining (a retelling)
- Post-Demolition Manifesto
- My Gay-Ass Poem
- I Do This For