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Boneyard
For the first time in years, since its 2010 release, the debut book by Oakland performance poet Dee Allen. returns--expanded. Boneyard is a collection of poems and song-lyrics, spanning 3 decades, on the ongoing plight of Black people in America and many challenges to their collective right to live. Drugs, premature death, racism, religion, slavery, capital punishment, gang warfare, the police, the corporate world, struggles with seeking love, allegations of "not being Black enough"--they're all here.
The political, philosophical, and personal each cross paths in this solemn burial site--the Boneyard.
The political, philosophical, and personal each cross paths in this solemn burial site--the Boneyard.
For the first time in years, since its 2010 release, the debut book by Oakland performance poet Dee Allen. returns--expanded. Boneyard is a collection of poems and song-lyrics, spanning 3 decades, on the ongoing plight of Black people in America and many challenges to their collective right to live. Drugs, premature death, racism, religion, slavery, capital punishment, gang warfare, the police, the corporate world, struggles with seeking love, allegations of "not being Black enough"--they're all here.
The political, philosophical, and personal each cross paths in this solemn burial site--the Boneyard.
The political, philosophical, and personal each cross paths in this solemn burial site--the Boneyard.
