![]() ![]() “Yrsa’s work is like holding the truth in your hands. The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection bone are exactly that: reflections on a particular life honed to their essence-so clear and pared-down, they become universal.įrom navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society’s expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and abuse from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward’s bone resonates to the core of what it means to be human. and purest kind.” -nayyirah waheed, author of salt.įrom the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of poems about the heart, life, and the inner self.įoreword by Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir she lays her hands on the pulse of the thing. “yrsa daley-ward’s bone is a symphony of breaking and mending. ![]()
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