Cry.Sweat. Bleed. Write.

Kay Bell's piercing and poignant collection of poems begins in a place of displacement, as the poet endures her childhood uprooting from the Caribbean islands to a fragmented America. There she encounters a mother's harsh life, fatherlessness, a stressed girlhood, and elusive opportunity. She is "sponsored by aching," and experiences "what it means to be a grown woman afraid of the dark," and discovers "how difficult it is to anticipate the morning." Yet the poet's voice is resilient and de...