"Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book, harris. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.įinalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power, or where it may lead.Īs in her acclaimed previous collections, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration, subway panic, zoomorphism, and linguistic battlefields. The poems here are interested in the power of observation. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns, and in a time of political uncertainty, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. The speakers in these poems are often protagonists. harris’ third collection explore the mystique, and myth, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness, aging, landscape and artistic tradition. In particular, the speakers in francine j. The poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRY
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