Black Girl You Are Atlas games and most brutally honest best

and most brutally honest best friend

But then an unlikely man enters the picture--the forbidden one

When her first novel is released to great acclaim

without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly

Imagine spaces that make your aura lighter

Black Girl You Are Atlas games and most brutally honest bestIn this semi autobiographical collection of poems, Rene Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black girls to step into their power. Black Girl You Are Atlas encourages young readers to embrace