Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery by Pamela Sneed

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Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery by Pamela Sneedif anger were an ax it would split me open and if this is a sermon let it be my granddaddys sermon my grandmothers foottapping steady rocking choir singing from "It Is Not a New Age" First published in 1998, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery is the debut collection by acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed. Provocative and potent, it tackles the political and personal issues of enslavement, sexuality, emotional trauma, and abuse.

” a radical new translation of a thousand-year-old lyric

beginning with the opening poem that imagines the plants in the Botanic Gardens

is filled with poems that chronicle and question identity

Sarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican question asker who can see with clarity the truth

In her debut poetry collection

She plumbs these institutions of constraint

The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God

Night Logic explores the psychology of suppression in lucid

according to Jason Koo

and much of his past is a secret to himself

or a sequence of ecstatic lyrics on childbirth

Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press