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The collection plate, poems, Kendra Allen

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poetry

The collection plate

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Kendra Allen

poems

Looping through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies--and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility

Machine generated contents note:, Evening service, Look at the material, I'm the note held toward the end, Company is coming over, Solace by earl, If I'm not my mother, The invention of the Super Sadness! was an accident, I hate when niggas die, Our Father's house (i), #FreeMyNiggas but free my niggas, A trilogy everyone watches, My sex wet, I come to you as humbly as I know how, The many times I failed to defend my mother to Our Father, We had died real quick, Learning to tread water, Collection plates, Our Father's house (ii), All the things that stretch out my lower back, Naked & afraid, Afraid & naked, The water cycle, Practical life skills, Melatonin, Our Father's house (iii), Been back before, The Super Sadness! feels like anger which feels like, Let's leave, I ain't never baked a thing from scratch a day in my life, Our Father's house (iv), Chihuahuas, I'm tired of yo ass always crying, If you throw me in this water what you're telling me is you want me dead, Most calvaries have dead people, The maybe memory, Happy 100th birthday, Who say good folk ain't supposed to die, When I eulogize Our Father, "No one had told her about the end of love", Leave me alone, If I am the Father, Birth of black bishop, Our Father's house (v), Sermon notes, Gifting back bread & barren land