Bone Language

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jamaica Baldwin's poetry debut </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Bone Language</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a testament to the specific ways women survive the world and its attacks on their bodies. At the core of this poet's survival is an engagement with a mother/daughter relationship that lives within the shadows of addiction-a love letter to mothers as they are not as the world has asked them to be. With precision and vulnerability Baldwin's lyric I signifies her body and its history as it reckons with loss misogyny racism and desire. I kept answering/your drowned voice with my own / kept singing along /to our borrowed honey / kept words / the dead of women quick / with longing.</span></p>