What Had Happened Was - 9781478028284
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Product Details
Author:
Therí Alyce Pickens
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
96
Publisher:
Duke University Press (March 25, 2025)
Imprint:
Duke University Press
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9781478028284
ISBN-10:
1478028289
Weight:
13.28oz
Dimensions:
7" x 10"
File:
TWO RIVERS-PERSEUS-Metadata_Only_Perseus_Distribution_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260313163409-20260313.xml
Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$89.95
Country of Origin:
United States
Case Pack:
16
As low as:
$85.45
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
H
Pub Discount:
35
Overview
In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life, popular culture, and history to individual encounters with emotion, love, and chronic disability, Pickens crafts and questions the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we want to be. Throughout, Pickens mines the formal structures and the play of Black English within the lives and afterlives of Harriet Tubman, Mary J. Blige, Lil' Kim, Breonna Taylor, and figments of our collective imagination. Her singular poetic voice effortlessly flows between what she knows and what she’s heard and between everyday Black conversation and her work in cultural criticism and disability studies. Traveling at the speed of thought, Pickens explores a praxis of storytelling governed by the places where truths and fables kiss.
