Butcher

by Natasha T. Miller

Overview

Butcher is a book about love & loss — about being unapologetic and transparent in grief.

Natasha finds an unexpected solace in the kitchen after losing her best friend and brother, Marcus. Here, using the cuts of the cow as a metaphor Miller, explores addiction, family & tragedy.

Butcher takes the body of a cow and cleaves it into 5 parts: envisioning the cuts as relationship with family members and social forces. Her Mother the rib, her Brother the brisket, her queerness as the tongue and cheek.. Butcher is raw and tender. It's a book that tells the story of a woman who redefined success after losing the most valuable thing to her.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943735907
Publisher:	Button Poetry
Publication date:	02/23/2021
Series:	Button Poetry
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Natasha T. Miller is a Detroit, MI native, performance poet, LGBTQ activist, film producer, and founder of the “Artists Inn Detroit.” Natasha has been a member of four national slam teams, starred in a national Sprite commercial, a Shinola CNN ad, and she is a Women of the World Poetry Slam 3-time top five finalist. She has awed audiences across the world at more than a hundred universities and venues, performing in stadiums for as many as thirty thousand people. She has been featured in magazines such as Vogue, Entrepreneur, and many more. Natasha currently tours the world using her words to enlighten, create equality, and most importantly spread truth, and forgiveness in the tradition of so many great leaders before her.

Table of Contents

The Rib

"What Are the Consequences of Silence?" 3

Sangria 4

Two Fires 6

The Answer Is Kindness 7

Family Reunion 8

I See You 10

Tongue & Cheek

If I Make it Back 15

The Other Black Man 16

An Open Letter to Raven Symoné 18

How to Come Out and Stay Out 20

To Existing Being Enough 22

The Round

Correction 25

Ten Things You Sound Like When You Say "all lives matter" in Response to Black Lives Matter 26

Insomnia 28

Dear Kenneka Jenkins 29

Nobody's Body Is a Crime 30

Why Won't Someone Send a Tender Blue Boy to Cheer up Little Girl Blue 32

Advice from my Grandmother 33

The Playground Is Empty 34

Chopped 35

The Tenderloin

Your Son's Smile 39

On Turning My Nephew Into a Vegan 40

Frank Ocean 41

The Brisket

Unexpected 45

Grief 46

They Say 47

Say Less 48

Butcher 49

Hot Flashes 50

The Meaning 52

You Marcus 53

I Learned of Grief Too Late 54

Acknowledgments 57