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How can she build a home where Confederate symbols strategically stand in the center of town? Can she sage the chilling truths of her ancestors? What will she do to cope with the traumatizing ghostliness of the present-day South?<\/p><p><em>Ghost in a Black Girl\u2019s Throat<\/em>\u00a0is a heart-wrenching reconciliation and confrontation of the living, breathing ghosts that awaken Black women each day. This debut poetry collection summons multiple hauntings\u2014ghosts of matriarchs that came before, those that were slain, and those that continue to speak to us, but also those horrors women of color strive to put to rest.\u00a0<em>Ghost in a Black Girl\u2019s Throat<\/em>\u00a0examines the haunting feeling of facing past demons while grappling with sexism, racism, and bigotry. They are all present: ancestral ghosts, societal ghosts, and spiritual, internal hauntings. This book calls out for women to speak their truth in hopes of settling the ghosts or at least being at peace with them.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b0c977 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8b0c977\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Praise<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ecd962f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ecd962f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cIf storytelling in the griot\u2019s hand is a form or resistance, then GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL\u2019S THROAT is a form of control. Khalisa Rae\u2019s poetics are unbreakable glass knives that own charted and unmarked underground burrows, providing refuge for righteous indignation. Unapologetic, slippery, but cautious language weaves inside, over and under the remnants of sacrifice and atonement. We recoil to remember that our ancestral mothers once had a voice and now our voices are our bodies.\u201d<em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); background-color: var( --e-global-color-e938cb7 );\">\u2014<\/span>Jaki Shelton Green, author of\u00a0I Want to Undie You<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cKhalisa Rae\u2019s\u00a0<em>Ghost in a Black Girl\u2019s Throat<\/em>\u00a0is like a newborn scream that\u2019s been held in for eons. Sharp, strong, unapologetic, beautiful, and angry, the writing in this collection is a celebration of language and rhythm\u2026. The result is a book that demands to be read with clenched fists and an open heart.\u201d \u2014<em>PANK<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cRae considers the intersection of history and modernity in the American South in her provocative debut.\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); background-color: var( --e-global-color-e938cb7 );\">\u2014<\/span><em>Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cA remarkable chronicle of agency and prophetic voice. Ghosts and apparitions are among playful agents in the pages to witness a reclamation and provide a powerful fire. This haunting is but a reckoning of reconciliations and a quest for meaning in agency against oppressive forces.\u201d \u2014<em>Yes Poetry<\/em><\/p><p>&#8220;Our hauntings, our ghosts, our pain&#8211;the deepest of hues, heavy and harrowing&#8211;live as we do in the here and now, awaiting rest. <em>Ghost in a Black Girl&#8217;s Throat<\/em> honors the dead as the living, speaking new life into all that weighs on black women&#8211;by freeing the voices of those who have been silenced, bringing peace to the restless who are powerless no more.&#8221;<br \/><em>\u2014Denise Nichole Andrews, Editor in Chief, The Hellebore\u00a0Press, and Founder, HUES Foundation<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy It Now Reviews PageTurners: How Trauma and Love Converge at a Literary Point &#8211; The Root Review of Ghost In A Black Girl\u2019s Throat &#8211; Entropy Mag Khalisa Rae\u2019s Superpower &#8211; Artlitlab Exorcising Whiteness: Khalisa Rae\u2019s Ghost In A Black Girl\u2019s Throat &#8211; The Rumpus Review &#8211; Publisher\u2019s Weekly Khalisa Rae\u2019s Collection \u201cGhost in &#8230; <a title=\"Ghost In A Black Girl&#8217;s Throat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/khalisarae.com\/staging\/1492\/ghost-in-a-black-girls-throat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ghost In A Black Girl&#8217;s Throat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khalisarae.com\/staging\/1492\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khalisarae.com\/staging\/1492\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khalisarae.com\/staging\/1492\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khalisarae.com\/staging\/1492\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khalisarae.com\/staging\/1492\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":160,"href":"https:\/\/khalisarae.com\/staging\/1492\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/khalisarae.com\/staging\/1492\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khalisarae.com\/staging\/1492\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}