Overview
Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins' formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and afrofuturism while chronicling their transition and walking readers through different ""rooms"". The speaker isn't afraid to call themselves out while also bending time, displaying the terror of being Black/queer/trans in Texas, and more - all while using humor and craft. What does freedom look like? What can we learn from nature and our past? How do you reintroduce yourself in a world that refuses queerness? How can we use poetry as a tool in the toolbox that helps build freedom? This collection explores those questions, and manifests a world where Black, queer, and trans people get to live.
Full Product Details
Author: KB Brookins
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 9781646052639
ISBN 10: 1646052633
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 20 July 2023
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
""Brookins’s debut full-length collection explores what it really means to be free in America, particularly as a Black, queer, trans writer living in Texas; their writing style is urgent and timely while still holding space for the possibility of a life lived on one’s own terms."" —Emma Specter, Vogue ""KB Brookins’s Freedom House is an unapologetic, forward-dreaming manifesto for a better, shared future."" —Chaney Hill, Southern Review of Books
"""Brookins’s debut full-length collection explores what it really means to be free in America, particularly as a Black, queer, trans writer living in Texas; their writing style is urgent and timely while still holding space for the possibility of a life lived on one’s own terms."" —Emma Specter, Vogue ""KB Brookins’s Freedom House is an unapologetic, forward-dreaming manifesto for a better, shared future."" —Chaney Hill, Southern Review of Books"
Author Information
KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. Their chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the Saguaro Poetry Prize. KB's poems and essays are published in Poets.org, Huffington Post, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. They have earned fellowships from PEN America, Civil Rights Corps, and Lambda Literary among others. KB's debut memoir PRETTY (Alfred A. Knopf) will arrive in 2024, and they are a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts fellow. Follow KB online at @earthtokb.
