Crushed & Crowned

<p>Crushed & Crowned guides the reader through a museum of bodies seeking to illuminate the</p><p>darkest corners of our history. From sanitation workers killed in Memphis to elegies aimed at</p><p>resurrection these poems forbid sleeping. Murals of saints guard refugees statues replace</p><p>enslavers with confident Black teens a high school teacher observes the joys and sorrows of his</p><p>students. These poems also stop us at one of the world's largest refugee camps inviting us to see</p><p>LGBTQ refugees and their plight. These poems center the lives of Harriet Tubman and Frederick</p><p>Douglass considering their places in our history. These poems believe that if we read and live</p><p>with the right spirit the crushed of our world can end up crowned.</p>