Good Dress Refugees And as she is thrown

And as she is thrown from one precarious relationship to the next-a married man who wants to show off the glamourous

there will always be room at their kitchen table for her community to gather around

both previously published and brand new

In these pages we meet young Shange

Keyana has come up with the perfect idea for a class project

Good Dress Refugees And as she is thrownFollowing the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers's Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems