Colorfast by Rose Mclarney

Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere by Anastacia-Renee

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693843 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693843] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere Author: Anastacia-Renee Narrator: Anastacia-Renee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god is a Black woman in a town. What happens when there are multiple universes in the middle of nowhere? And what if in each universe there reigned other Black woman gods? One million versions of god, and one million saints to watch over us? And what if this Black woman god were placed here on earth? These are just a few of the questions Anastacia-Reneé asks in this daring and mind-bending hybrid collection. Hers is a universe of striking variety—monsters, nontraditional saints, witches, zombies, the couple in the apartment next door, the wise elders from down the block, and gods watching over us all—as well as community and connectedness. With a prose storyline and characters that connect through family, time, and place, Anastacia-Reneé paints world(s) rich with wonder and the paranormal as she peers into the lives of everyday people and spectacular creatures inhabiting not just our neighborhoods, but other dimensions. Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere is about interstellar ancestry, community and spirituality. It is about the things we invoke, conjure, and rely on to maintain joy as we keep it moving through difficult eras. Anastacia-Reneé’s power imbues her spellbinding storytelling with lovingly rendered characters brought to life in lyrical poetry. She builds worlds within worlds and dares us to fully see and love ourselves in all our complexity.

The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693847 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693847] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems Author: Hala Alyan Narrator: Hala Alyan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 38 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war. A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body—and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? When you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest?

Colorfast by Rose Mclarney

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697145 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697145] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Colorfast Author: Rose Mclarney Narrator: Rose Mclarney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 43 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: A haunting, intimate, and beautifully-crafted collection of poems rooted in southern Appalachia that reflects on loss and remembrance—and reaches beyond the constraints of time and place Rose McLarney’s fourth collection of poems, Colorfast, reckons with fading and bleeding away, the gray of aging and the gray areas to which truths are relegated. McLarney reconsiders girlhood stories, acknowledges omissions from Southern history, and studies the silences of women’s and other voices left out of accounts of the past. Yet she does not write of only what has been lost, defying elegy with tributes to her mother while she is alive to read them, and finding vibrancy that remains in sources such as weeds, gravel, insect shells, and the flawed human body. Colorfast weaves its threads into poems that, like the women who dwell in them, are subtly strong enough to stand alone, while they also connect into a provocative conversation about heritage and the holds we can keep.

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697146 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697146] to listen full audiobooks. Title: 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Author: Nam Le Narrator: Nam Le Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 17 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat In his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literature—in a virtuosic array of forms and registers—before shattering the form itself. In line with the works of Claudia Rankine, Cathy Park Hong, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, this book is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity—and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression, and historical trauma. But it also means the violence of that assumption. Of being always assumed to be outside one’s home, country, culture, or language. And the complex violence—for the diasporic writer who wants to address any of this—of language itself. Making use of multiple tones, moods, masks, and camouflages, Le’s poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilizing energy between the personal and the political. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book. *This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of visual elements from the book, to reference for several of the poems.

Make Your Own Magic: A Beginner's Guide to Self-Empowering Witchcraft by Amanda Lovelace

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696641 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696641] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Make Your Own Magic: A Beginner's Guide to Self-Empowering Witchcraft Author: Amanda Lovelace Narrator: Amanda Lovelace Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this one comes an accessible guide to welcoming magic into your life, perfect for beginner witches and the magic-curious alike. As witchcraft grows ever more popular, there are countless introductions and paths into magical practice to choose from—so many that you might not know where to begin. When you’re just getting started, it’s easy to be intimidated or discouraged or to feel that there’s no place for you in the craft. With make your own magic, amanda lovelace aims to change that. This inviting beginner’s guide shows that magic doesn’t have to be fancy, time-consuming, or one-size-fits-all. It introduces the tenets of witchcraft so that you can develop your own practice and relationship with magic in whatever way works for you. With simple explanations, twenty all-new inspiring poems, words of encouragement, magical journaling prompts, and more, this book sweeps away the gatekeeping and offers you the tools needed to begin building a strong, long-lasting practice focused on self-love.