Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix
Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix
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Build Yourself a Boat

Author: Camonghne Felix

Narrator: Camonghne Felix

Unabridged: 1 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/31/2019

Synopsis

This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.

About Camonghne Felix

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane

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

Goodreads review by Jonfaith

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

Quotes

“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

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