Made to Explode FLASHCARDS and this new book captures

and this new book captures the bloom in all its many manifestations

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as thoroughly luminous as the stars above

'A journey of wonder and imagination' Stylist

Made to Explode FLASHCARDS and this new book capturesIn her fourth collection, acclaimed poet Sandra Beasley interrogates the landscapes of her life in decisive, fearless, and precise poems that fuse intimacy and intensity. She probes memories of growing up in Virginia, in Thomas Jefferson's shadow, where liberal affluence obscured and perpetuated racist aggressions, but where the poet was simultaneously steeped in the cultural traditions of the American South. Her home in Washington, DC, inspires prose