You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love
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You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love

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You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love

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The poems of award-winning poet Yona Harvey's much anticipated You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love follow an unnamed protagonist on her multidimensional, Afro-futuristic journey. Her story stretches the boundaries normally constraining a black, female body like hers. Half-superhero, half-secret-identity, she encounters side-slipping, speculative realities testing her in poems that appear like the panels of a comic book. Music directs readers through large and small emotional arcs, constantly retroubled by lyric experimentation. Harvey layers her poems with a chorus of women's voices. Her artful use of refrain emphasizes the protagonist's meaning making and doubling back: "Who am I to say? The eye is often mistaken. Or is it the mind? Always eager to interpret." Our hero is captured, escapes, scuba dives, goes interstellar, and she emerges on the other end of her journey renewed, invoking the gods: "taunt the sharks. & when the glaciers get to melting, / all God's River's we shall haunt."

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Publisher
Four Way Books
Year
2020
ISBN
9781945588761
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. That
  7. Segregation Continuum
  8. The Baseline
  9. Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime
  10. ā€œI worked hard so my girls didnā€™t have to serve nobody else like I did except Godā€
  11. Necessarily
  12. Performance Perm / ā€œIā€™d Rather Be a Blind Girlā€
  13. Like a Magpie
  14. Boy in the Forest Between Living and Leaving
  15. Hush Harbor
  16. Snowbound / A Resistance
  17. Odysseus Leaves Circe
  18. The Subject of Retreat
  19. You Donā€™t Have to Go to Mars for Love
  20. The Dream District / January
  21. Q.
  22. ā€œI was seduced by the independence of his mindā€
  23. The Subject of Surrender
  24. The Sonnet District
  25. Posting Bail
  26. The Dream District / Origins
  27. The Frog District
  28. Cutthroat / The Rising Cost of Fuel
  29. Dark and Lovely After Takeoff (A Future)
  30. Thereisnocenteroftheuniverse
  31. The River Wanderer
  32. Acknowledgments
  33. About the Author