Blood Vinyls Yolanda Franklin

From blood vinyls anhinga press 2018.

Blood vinyls yolanda franklin.

The collection is a large reflection of her childhood and she bases many of the ideas in her work around family roots and music. Read 2 reviews from the world s largest community for readers. The organization of the blood vinyls as tracks with each track as a theme illuminates these soulful gorgeous intelligently crafted poems capturing the black south and womanhood so intimately and with such knowing an edgy discography of florida and the contentions of gender and race in the south. Franklin understands like zora neale hurston how to pen intimate narratives that reveal a.

Nora rated it it was amazing mar 09 2018. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. This book is all sass and riot which is to say that franklin is unashamed by the fact of sorrow an emotion that reminds us just how vulnerable we really are. Franklin has been selected as an alternate candidate for barbados for the fulbright u s.

See what yolanda franklin yolandajfrankli has discovered on pinterest the world s biggest collection of ideas. Franklin is the author of blood vinyls 4 58 avg rating 12 ratings 2 reviews. Franklin this book earned a 5 star rating from roxane gay who praised it by saying that there was not a weak poem in the book. In blood vinyls southern vernacular gives yolanda franklin what poetry must give to the ear.

Read 2 reviews from the world s largest community for readers. Yolanda franklin rated it it was amazing jun 22 2019. Ally wright rated it it was amazing aug 02 2018. Scholar program for the 2020 2021 academic year.

The author organized this collection of moving works about southern black womanhood around the structure of a vinyl record and each poem can be read as a track instead of a piece. Available for purchase here. She has also been awarded the 2020 vermont studio center callaloo writing fellowship.