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Say Her Name
- Author
- Zetta Elliott
- Narrator
- Channie Waites
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 14 January 2020
- Run Time
- 1 hour 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of
voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls.
This collection features forty-nine powerful poems, four of which are tribute poems inspired by the works of Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Phillis Wheatley.
This provocative collection will move every reader to reflect, respond—and act.
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Details
- Author
- Zetta Elliott
- Narrator
- Channie Waites
- Duration
- 1 hour 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 January 2020
- ISBN
- 9781980061885
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, Children’s / Teenage: Poetry
Synopsis
From award-winning author Zetta Elliott comes a stirring and powerful poetry collection that reveals the beauty, danger, and magic found at the intersection of race and gender.Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls.This collection features forty-nine powerful poems, four of which are tribute poems inspired by the works of Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Phillis Wheatley.This provocative collection will move every reader to reflect, respond—and act.
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