Black Ballad

Editors' Selection from the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. For a young Ghanaian girl who traveled from the hot winds of Accra to the pulsating rhythms of the Bronx, belonging is elusive. Torn between her desires to be West African and American at the same time, she negotiates linguistic and cultural barriers that force her to reinvent herself. Set in spaces that often drown out the songs of Black women, BLACK BALLAD offers us poems of compassion toward womanhood, toward rediscovery in the exhaustion of migration. Afua Ansong sounds the chant of joy into existence.

Poetry.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Ansong, Afua
Published: 07/12/2022
Publisher: Bull City Press
ISBN: 9781949344264
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.50lbs