Freedom Knows My Name - by Kelly Harris-Deberry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Freedom Knows My Name</em> takes readers on a poetic journey of seeking collective and personal freedom as a Black woman. By scanning the QR code on the back of the book, readers are transported to the author reading selected poems such: "For the Women Who Save Me," "Disruptions", "Ms. Potato Head (for Rachel Dolezal)." Harris-DeBerry's verbal autopsy of Dolezal's transracial declaration is masterful. "Strangers Wanting to Buy My House (Not for Sale)" is a visual commentary on gentrification. The poet also explores her family's migration roots from the South to Cleveland and Ohio to living in New Orleans in the poem, "Super Sunday." Poet icon, Sonia Sanchez, is also celebrated in "Sonia." This is a needed conversation in the palm of your hands. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Freedom Knows My Name is electric. Kelly mixes brilliant poetics with the political. Read this book and don't stop there. Scan the book and be transported to audio versions of some poems that truly capture the poet's literary and oral magic. Experience this book."</p><p><br></p><p>- Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Author of We Cast a Shadow</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p> "The poet. she is the sound of wonderful."</p><p>- Kalamu ya Salaam, Author The Magic of Juju: An Appreciation of the Black Arts Movement</strong></p><p><br></p><p>"Kelly Harris pulls no punches in her superb debut collection. Her writing is brutally honest, and her poems dance with the spiritual ethos of the holy profane."</p><p><br></p><p>- Langston Hughes Review</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>"In Freedom Knows My Name, Kelly A. Harris combines the truths of her Midwest upbringing with her adult life in the South, bearing witness to a changing America. With a nod to generations past "Negroes still bent in the fields of yesterday" to the changing of now, "may the heaven/ we prayed for come /out of nowhere" Harris' pen doesn't miss a beat, asking necessary questions in language that is critical and incisive. Yet these words linger long on love, hope, identity, and determination, "We are dangerous/ when we love We" yes, we sure are."</p><p><br></p><p>Teri Ellen Cross Davis</strong></p><p>Author of Haint</strong></p><br>
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