Sometimes the cadence of our experiences cannot be expressed with traditional language and one must find a pace and rhythm that bellows what the mouth cannot. Bonita Lee Penn has done so with her chapbook of poems, Every Morning A Foot Is Looking For My Neck. Whether it is the thumping of a heart or a black body hitting the ground prematurely, her words elegize the cries of those who have left us in a violent frenzy and bring to light an all too familiar ache with wit, fire and a haunting truth. In this striking debut collection, Penn is unrelenting in the pushback against a world that tries to force us "to press our- / selves into the recesses, into shadows / of our skin. to lay low, to be silent, to / shrink. disappear." These are vibrant and brilliant poems.
| Author: Bonita Lee Penn |
| Publisher: Central Square Press |
| Publication Date: Jun 19, 2019 |
| Number of Pages: 40 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1941604099 |
| ISBN-13: 9781941604090 |
