The Grace of Black Mothers
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The Grace of Black Mothers
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Carried within Martheaus Perkins' The Grace of Black Mothers are the many howls of lost children and their martyrized mothers. This debut collection brings a lyrical reckoning on behalf of dismembered dreams by boldly finding grace through our Black mothers, aunties, and grannies. The work invites the reader into a yard where "whisper-thin soul-jazz drips over America" to flip through a Nile-long family album. Mamie Till-Mobley, Sybrina Fulton, Harriet Tubman, and the author's own mothers guide us as we "wander streets like cartographers of poverty" and hold our "promises to come home." Perkins shows his craft by shapeshifting through fighting game menus, optometry charts, screenplays, pirate codes, social media threads, and forms that embody dreams themselves. The Grace of Black Mothers is a collection drenched in complexity and nuance: homemade heroes and villains, justice and fabrication, wit and risk, resurrection and erasure.
Book Details
- Publisher:
- Trio House Press
- ISBN:
- 9781949487428
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 112
- Authors:
- Martheaus Perkins
- Published Date:
- 2025-07-01
- Language:
- English
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Who is a new voice in poetry that we need to check out? Someone with a debut book or recent release?
I had an opportunity to hear Martheaus Perkins read last year and was blown away by the poems from his debut collection, The Grace of Black Mothers (Trio House Press, 2025). This collection has already been shortlisted for the Maya Angelou Book Award and the NAACP Image Award. His collection blends many different forms and is a powerful and poignant tribute to mother figures. Although he is a new emerging voice in poetry, his work reads like an established poet with decades and several volumes of work.