The Blood Poems is one part bloodletting, one part healing, and one part sensuous celebration as Jessica Helen Lopez lays out what it means to be a strong brown woman, a single mother, and the kickass bard that the twenty-first century needs. Lopez openly faces a damaging childhood, sex, divorce, and racial injustice in these poems. She proves that love is as complicated as lovemaking--messy and lusty, raucous and powerful, capable of amazing highs and abysmal lows. She proves that when a woman learns to love herself, she will live a fierce and full life and teach her daughters to do the same.
- | Author: Jessica Helen Lopez
- | Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- | Publication Date: 15-Aug-21
- | Number of Pages: 112 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0826363253
- | ISBN-13: 9780826363251
