Black Girl You Are Atlas Format:Hardcover while always staying true to

while always staying true to themselves and each other

Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives to evoke a present forever haunted by the past

armor-like skin

By the time they are teens

to probe a wound that never seems to heal

Black Girl You Are Atlas Format:Hardcover while always staying true toA thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award winning author and poet Rene Watson. In this semi autobiographical collection of poems, Rene Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black girls