2020 Reading Challenge - Day 220
August 9, 2020
Book 59 - Dear Current Occupant
Chelene Knight
Part 4 - pages 91-129
Chelene Knight
Part 4 - pages 91-129
This section has more poems and a prose section for an epilogue. The poems, again, were hard to follow, the Epilogue was more cohesive. In the Endnotes, the author notes that the book's narrative is rather like a quilt. She says that there are cracks in the narrative that are open for transformation. She admits that she sees herself in double - as a black woman writer and as a writer. And wants to be more than just a diversity hashtag. She's written a previous book, Braided Skin, which also got rave reviews and I might try that one at some point. Perhaps I'm just not savvy enough to appreciate the cutting edge style used by the author in this book but... I really didn't engage with it at all.
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