Blood Vinyls Yolanda Franklin

The author organized this collection of moving works about southern black womanhood around the structure of a vinyl record and each poem can be read as a track instead of a piece.

Blood vinyls yolanda franklin.

Read 2 reviews from the world s largest community for readers. See what yolanda franklin yolandajfrankli has discovered on pinterest the world s biggest collection of ideas. In blood vinyls southern vernacular gives yolanda franklin what poetry must give to the ear. Franklin is the author of blood vinyls 4 58 avg rating 12 ratings 2 reviews.

The collection is a large reflection of her childhood and she bases many of the ideas in her work around family roots and music. Read 2 reviews from the world s largest community for readers. This book is all sass and riot which is to say that franklin is unashamed by the fact of sorrow an emotion that reminds us just how vulnerable we really are. Franklin has been selected as an alternate candidate for barbados for the fulbright u s.

From blood vinyls anhinga press 2018. Nora rated it it was amazing mar 09 2018. Yolanda franklin rated it it was amazing jun 22 2019. The organization of the blood vinyls as tracks with each track as a theme illuminates these soulful gorgeous intelligently crafted poems capturing the black south and womanhood so intimately and with such knowing an edgy discography of florida and the contentions of gender and race in the south.

Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Blood vinyls by yolanda j. Ally wright rated it it was amazing aug 02 2018. Scholar program for the 2020 2021 academic year.

Available for purchase here. Franklin m f a phd author of blood vinyls anhinga press poetry creative nonfiction and african american lit. Franklin understands like zora neale hurston how to pen intimate narratives that reveal a.