Ain't Never Not Been Black Topaz Winters – Jennifer Sánchez

– Jennifer Sánchez

this spare but rich collection weaves an emotionally complex tapestry that includes bits of history and Biblical tradition as well as fragments of our calamitous present

Falkner’s first full-length poetry collection

Here we are in that lush reverberation of Black aliveness out of which he emerges and which he so stunningly attends

drawing them into adolescence

Ain't Never Not Been Black Topaz Winters – Jennifer SánchezJavon Johnson, 2020 Ain't Never Not Been Black foregrounds Black pleasure Black pain and Black love in unflinchingly Black ways. Engaging with themes of masculinity, racism, love, and joy, Johnson is at once critical and creative. His spoken word performance transfers effortlessly to the page, with poems that will encompass you. This is a book about blackness and survival, and how in America these are inseparable. In a world of individualism, who can