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    Graphite
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    Ebook49 pages21 minutes

    Graphite

    By Haymarket Books

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    Patricia Frazier’s Graphite is an ode to her grandmother and childhood home, the Ida B. Wells Projects, both which the poet lost to city- and state-sanctioned discrimination. The chapbook investigates loss and gentrification, particularly their effects on black young people from Chicago, whose political movement, resilience, and ability to make celebration after pain, drive these poems.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHaymarket Books
    Release dateSep 4, 2018
    ISBN9781642590012
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      Book preview

      Graphite - Haymarket Books

      Graphite Made It!

      rolled right out

      of the packaging

      and kissed her country’s

      toes.

      Graphite never read

      Langston Hughes,

      but knows: One should love

      one’s country, for one’s country is

      your mama.

      Graphite’s mama

      does not love her back,

      That’s against

      God Pat Pat rolls back up

      Graphite’s throat.

      Graphite has five kids,

      two of them died,

      became gravel

      underneath her tongue,

      Graphite forgets

      to take her insulin.

      Graphite has blood thick

      with everything

      she can’t remember.

      Graphite drinks the good brew

      and a soldier spills from her chest.

      She lets the old body drop

      quicksand through the bathroom

      floor.

      Graphite dies.

      goes back to the projects.

      She never wanted to leave.

      Graphite loves her

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