Gumbo Ya Ya Material:Paperback From one of the country’s

From one of the country’s most visionary legal thinkers

Poetic and profoundly feminist

Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family

Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive

trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him

Gumbo Ya Ya Material:Paperback From one of the country’sWinner of the 2020 Cave Canem Prize Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Maries stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking reimagination of the world, one