unreliable narrator

Florence’s poems take all the ugliest things we see in ourselves and name them beautiful and worthy of expression.

In a world where black women are negatively portrayed for expressing their feelings, unreliable narrator seeks to relinquish the shame surrounding emotional vulnerability and to empower the sensitive black girl within. Told in three parts, Ayanna Florence's debut full length poetry collection is a surgical analysis of victimhood, trauma, and triumph through the lens of personal ...