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    The Collection Plate: Poems
    The Collection Plate: Poems
    The Collection Plate: Poems
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    The Collection Plate: Poems

    Written by Kendra Allen

    Narrated by Kendra Allen

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    A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice 

    Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies—and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility

    Both formally exciting and a delight to read, The Collection Plate is a testament to Allen’s place as the voice of a generation—and a witness to how we come into being in the twenty-first century. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJul 6, 2021
    ISBN9780063048492
    Author

    Kendra Allen

    Kendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She is the author of The Collection Plate and When You Learn the Alphabet, and writes the music column “Make Love in My Car” for Southwest Review. In her spare time, she loves laughing and leaving. You can keep up with her work at KendraCanYou.com.

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