Working the Roots

<p class=ql-align-justify>When I think of the kind of writing that really moves me I think of the elements present in Bennett's poetry: honesty about Black women's interior lives clarity (because we don't have time to talk <em>around </em>a thing) and a mean metaphor. Amanda Bennett has written a poetry collection squarely rooted in the legacy of Black feminists like Audre Lorde Lucille Clifton and June Jordan: this is my favorite kind of poetry. The <em>feeling </em>present in these poems welcomes you in to experience the world as the writer does where black is a place we carry and difficult women are like dynamite. <em>Working the Roots </em>is a book everyone should read if for no other reason than we all need a little vulnerability to survive this world and each other. </p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-right>-Ariana Brown author of <em>We Are Owed.</em></p>