

Build Yourself a Boat
Author: Camonghne Felix
Narrator: Camonghne Felix
Unabridged: 1 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/31/2019
Categories: Fiction, Poetry, African American & Black Poetry
Author: Camonghne Felix
Narrator: Camonghne Felix
Unabridged: 1 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/31/2019
Categories: Fiction, Poetry, African American & Black Poetry
Camonghne Felix is a poet, political strategist, media junkie, and cultural worker. She received an MA in Arts Politics from NYU, an MFA from Bard College, and has received Fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo and Poets House. The 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee is the author of the chapbook Yolk, and was recently listed by Black Youth Project as a “Black Girl From the Future You Should Know.” Her first full-length collection of poems, Build Yourself a Boat, was a 2017 University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham & Pollak Prize finalist, and a 2017 Fordham University Poets Out Loud semi-finalist.
Excellent poems about trauma, self-harm, race, and womanhood. The poems that experiment with form are really interesting. I love how the footnotes and the final piece come together. Grad poetry.......more
The poem could just die right here but it is not at all tempered not any of it real I crawl into his lap, put my mouth to his cheek and scream, holler, you can still hear me, can't you? The blurb from Morgan Parker wasn't noticed when I picked this up at the library. There wasn't any solid sense of expect......more
“Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder—a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question.” Kathy Engel, author of Ruth’s Skirts