Book Group: Antoinette Brim's "Psalm of the Sunflower"

This showcase features the latest authors on the Willow Books imprint of Aquarius Press, an independent press that a diverse cadre of writers call home. Willow Books focuses on the work of African American poets. The poets highlighted here address a range of contemporary and long-standing political issues. Lita Hoopers The Journal of Sojourner Truth re-envisions the slave narrative of the famous abolitionist. Curtis Crislers Pulling Scabs examines the search for justice and healing through various aspects of history. In Psalm of the Sunflower, Antoinette Brims poems, delicately rooted in domesticity and the rural South, explore the painful reality of divorce as a foundation for self-discovery. While Tara Betts Arc and Hue inhabits the various voices and forms that inhabit the politics of race and gender. The distinct and surprising turns offered by these poets proposes that verse is a domicile for dreams and empowering perspectives.