Veronica: A Suite in X Parts

by Erica Hunt

“Veronica: A Suite in X Parts is a tale of every Veronica every femme trying to live despite the chronicle of a death foretold and the gratuitous violence of everyday life. It is a beautiful movement, a lamentation, a chorale, an algorithm, and V and X of it attending to an rewriting the mathematics of black social life. The mother mourning, the girl slain, the unloved woman, the captive maternal, the stone who wants to dance, the girl done wrong too many times are some of V’s many faces. This suite of poems takes the breath away, demands that you bow your head and get ready for the storm.” —Saidiya Hartman, Author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments.

Genres: Poetry

90 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Abi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this!

So effective in breaking language apart to show how often it fails to capture the depth of emotion, kind of a scary thing to do when you're a poet and your whole thing is being asked to put words to emotion.

[Jesse · Rating 5 out of 5]

if you seek mother look no further