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Spill

Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs offers an alternative approach to Black feminist literary criticism, historiography, and the interactive practice of relating to the words of Black feminist thinkers. Gumbs not only speaks to the spiritual, bodily, and otherworldly experience of Black women but also allows readers to imagine new possibilities for poetry as a portal for understanding and deepening feminist theory.

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    March 7, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9780822373575

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    • Library Journal

      October 15, 2016

      Gumbs calls herself a queer black troublemaker and black feminist love evangelist, and she lives up to her own billing in this debut collection. "The ground shakes with us/ the gathering women/ grows rich grows brown grows deep," she says in the opening poem, and throughout she braids the personal and political. "Who spent your childhood up with barefoot errands," she asks, then afterward explains, "you will know me by the curling iron burn inside my thigh." Inspired by literary critic Hortense Spillers, the poems here are informed by a rigorous understanding of gendered violence and racism but take off in their own right. VERDICT Gumbs's writing has luscious urgency and rhythmic drive, which will make it of interest beyond its titular audience.

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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