The Opposite of an Exodus

Amara Amaryahs debut is a backward walk towards oneself and ones history in which the poet plays with plurality of voice story and silence. A mother and daughter sit down together as children second-generation kids choose language the way a carpenter chooses tools. Archival in their various forms these poems hold dialogue with bell hooks Jamaica Kincaid and Ntozake Shange. They collage dreams receipts text messages psalm. They live somewhere between where I am and who I was activating this liminal space as a moment of perpetual rebirth.