Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Poetry

BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME

Jasmine Mans

BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME, Mans' debut collection of poetry, explores the intersection of race, feminism, and queer identity. For Mans, the notion of "calling home" means looking back on her childhood, excavating her relationship with her mother, and reliving the hardships she faced as a young woman.

Comprised of 100 poems, BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME will be divided into six sections, each designated by an active phone number. Why are the phone numbers active? To appeal to the millions of fans who have listened to her spoken-word poetry online, Mans has recorded excerpts of her poems at these numbers. (For example: 973-996-8765) The collection will also feature four of Mans' viral YouTube poems, in print for the first time.

Written with heart, intelligence, and ferocity, BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME is a love letter to the wandering black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.

Jasmine Mans enjoys a robust social media following of 115,000 followers, and her most popular video has garnered 900,000 views on YouTube. She has performed at such esteemed venues as the Kennedy Center, Broadway's New Amsterdam Theater, the Wisconsin Governor's Mansion, and the Sundance Film Festival, and has opened shows for the likes of Mos Def, Janelle Monae, and Goapele. Mans is the current poet-in-residence at the Newark Public Library.

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Book Published 2021-03-09 by Berkley Books

Comments

Mans takes up the tools of Brooks and Sanchez into her good hands and chisels us an urgent and grand work, proving why she's the favorite poet of all the girls in the back of the bus.

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Delving into heartbreak, community, family, race, queer identity, sexual violence, feminism, and celebrity (including the blistering "Footnotes for Kanye West" and an astounding elegy for Whitney Houston), Mans' poems are startling and unforgettable.

Writing in surefooted verse, Mans refuses to allow our stories to be misunderstood.

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You are carrying in your hands a Black woman's heart.

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Mans' story feels universal in so many ways.

These poems both explode and glimmer on the page.

Jasmine Mans pulls at all the threads of who she is as a Black queer woman from Newark, unravels herself, then puts herself back together via clear, precise language that brooks no argument... Black Girl, Call Home moves from vignette to cultural criticism to ballad to eulogy to memoir with grace.

This book is a haven for all the black daughters out there, hoping to make sense of the power and powerlessness in their bodies, the connection to others' bodies, and the moments of everyday life that comprise so much of our identities.

This book is a haven for all the Black daughters out there, hoping to make sense of the power and powerlessness in their bodies, the connection to others' bodies, and the moments of everyday life that comprise so much of our identities.

The collection is so steeped with tenderness, it feels intimate and wholly relatable.