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A health care system built on bias and inequity, a system of policing that snatches our sons daughters from our arms, and a pandemic painting a target on our backs - this is 2020 through the eyes of a black woman with chronic illness. If youve ever been dismissed, ignored, suspected, or accused by a healthcare provider, you will relate to these verses. ---- In this Corona-cation-created collection, Maria James-Thiaw delivers personal poetic reflections on chronic illness and mortality, race relations, and family history. The speakers experiences form a colored chronicle of Despair-ities as fluidly surreal as Dalis melting clocks, in which she folds up her somedays in response to an immune system that unpeels her like fresh fruit, yet conjures music even from suffering (My sisters cells sickle). Her pain-pricked body is a voodoo doll. Even a right-wing white supremacist becomes a left-handed kindred soul whose nerves burn like crosses on each vertebra. Count Each Breath scrapes the poem-bone raw. Its verses burn with rage, against an uncertain future, an unredeemed past, and a bruised and bruising, black and blue-and white-America. - Vernita Hall, author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color Book specifications: Dimensions: 229 x 152 Author: Maria James-Thiaw Cover type: Paperback Publishing Year: 2022 Publishing Month: 9 Pages: 102 Language: English Publisher: Wild Ink Publishing LLC Weight: 159 g
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