The Stars With You

<p>She didn't choose her garden opens this chapbook exploring Black womanhood mental and physical health spirituality and ancestral roots. It is an investigation of how to locate a self amidst complex racial history and how to forge an authentic way forward. There's internal slippage as the subject weaves between the presence and spirits of others as well as a reckoning with the toll of navigating this world as a Black woman. Yet we also see hopefulness: a refuge in becoming part of the collective beyond individuality. <em>The Stars With You</em> gives us a speculative yearning for what is to come and probes what is required to reach it.</p>