We Want Our Bodies Back, jessica Care moore
We Want Our Bodies Back, jessica Care moore
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We Want Our Bodies Back
Poems

Author: jessica Care moore

Narrator: jessica Care moore

Unabridged: 2 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/31/2020

Synopsis

A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past two decades, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both Black women’s creative and intellectual power, and express the pain, sadness, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race. Fierce and passionate, Jessica Care moore argues that Black women spend their lives building a physical and emotional shelter to protect themselves from misogyny, criminalization, hatred, stereotypes, sexual assault, objectification, patriarchy, and death threats. We Want Our Bodies Back is an exploration—and defiant stance against—these many attacks.

About jessica Care moore

jessica Care moore is the founder and CEO of Moore Black Press, executive producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven Jess Care Moore Foundation. An internationally renowned poet, playwright, performance artist, and producer, she is the 2019 and 1017 Knight Arts Award winner, a 2016 Kresge Arts fellow, an NAACP Great Expectations awardee, and an Alain Locke Award recipient from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Moore is the author of The Words Don’t Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses the Ghetto, Sunlight Through Bullet Holes, and the critically acclaimed techno choreopoem Salt City. Her work has been published in numerous literary collections and she has performed on stages all over the world, including the Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the London Institute for Contemporary Arts. jessica lives and writes in a historic Detroit neighborhood with her son, King Thomas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sasha on November 05, 2020

I read this book slowly, from cover to cover. I savored it. I rarely do that with poetry books anymore but as a Black woman, this spoke to me in ways other poetry books don't. It spoke to me in ways other poetry books can't. It spoke to the woman in me, the Black woman in me, the poet in me, the wri......more

Goodreads review by Loc'd Booktician on August 04, 2021

Wow. The way in which these poems discussing OUR BODIES... Were PHENOMENAL! I felt that this collection met Maya and was introduced to Simone, had coffee with Dianna Ross, and had a meal with the Black Panthers, and planned to get Asata out of jail. I felt so many emotions goodness, sadness, angry,......more

Goodreads review by Smileitsjoy (JoyMelody) on March 22, 2020

This is my first time reading a full collection by Jessica Care Moore and I am happy to say it didn't disappoint. As a Black woman, I often forget how much control I lack over my own body and what that actually means and I think Moore does a fantastic job of addressing what that means for many peopl......more

Goodreads review by chantel on April 03, 2021

Some of us forced to swim Before cosmos were cosmopolitan x Men will one day see things from a woman’s Perspective & name it Vision x There is honor in hard work There is no honor in blind patriotism — Jessica Care Moore has so much to say! I loved this series of poetry with every fibre of my being.......more

Goodreads review by Katelyn Rose on September 02, 2020

3.5 Stars! This was a great collection!......more

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