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Grocery Shopping with My Mother
by Kevin Powell

    Publication Date: Dec 06, 2022
    List Price: $24.00
    Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
    Classification: Poetry
    ISBN13: 9781593767433
    Imprint: Soft Skull Press
    Publisher: Soft Skull Press
    Parent Company: Soft Skull Press

    Hardcover Description:

    “Kevin Powell returns with a poetic time capsule written with love in honor of his mother’s evolution. Powell investigates the nature of our country’s oppression through the generational wounds survived and passed on. These poems are a testament to the healing work of Kevin Powell, as they revel in the power of forgiveness, abundance, and lineage.” —Mahogany L. Browne, Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet in residence and author of Vinyl Moon

    When Kevin Powell’s elderly mother became ill, he returned home every week to take her grocery shopping in Jersey City. Walking behind her during those trips, Powell began to hear her voice, stories, and language in a new way—examining his own healing while praying for hers.

    Grocery Shopping with My Mother originated as social media posts about these visits and evolved into a breathtaking collection of thirty-two new poems, crafted like an album, plus four bonus tracks celebrating a great love of wordplay. Culturally rooted in the literary traditions of Ntozake Shange and Allen Ginsberg, Powell’s poems honor the likes of V (formerly Eve Ensler), bell hooks, and Sidney Poitier. Grocery Shopping with My Mother dives into the complexities of relationships and contemporary themes with honesty and vulnerability. Creatively and spiritually inspired by Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life,’ Powell’s poems shift in form and style, from praise chants to reverential meditations to, most importantly, innovative hope.




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