Salisa Grant’s debut collection of poetry is a Black mother’s ode to her lost son as much as it is a songbook for Black resilience. Grant does not refrain from allowing readers to bear witness to her pain, her loss, and her intuitive understanding of living through trauma. In these Black Hands captures the collective “sweets and sours” of Black life and illustrates empowering passages of Black love. Calling on the power and precedents from Anna Julia Cooper to Ntozake Shange, from Zora Neale Hurston to the Ferguson Uprising, Grant tenderly acknowledges the fires that have forged her people as well as the light that lives within them. Grant’s poems provide a looking glass and a legend for the joyful, eternal, and harrowing stories that fill our lives.
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About the Author
Salisa Grant was born in Providence, Rhode Island and raised in Duluth, Minnesota. Her first love is and always will be poetry. Her second love is her son Myles who lives within her heart and within her art. For more from Salisa readers can find her work in the poetry anthology Scattered Petals: poetry for remembering faith, hope, patience and courage and the soon to be released poetry collection A Garden for Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living. Readers can also find content from Salisa on her Youtube channel: “Foreseeing Salisa” and her instagram: @foreseeingsalisa. Salisa is completing her PhD in African American Literature at Howard University and works as an English professor. She currently resides in the Washington DC area.
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