i shimmer sometimes, too Joel Erkkinen — Rudy Francisco

— Rudy Francisco

Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair is the latest book by author William Evans

author of Orange

and dealing with some loss related to family

and their witnesses

i shimmer sometimes, too Joel Erkkinen — Rudy FranciscoPorsha Olayiwola, 2019. These poems dip their hands into the fabric of black womanhood and revel in it. Shimmer establishes Olayiwola firmly in the lineage of black queer poetics, celebrating the work done by generations of poets from Audre Lorde to Danez Smith. This is a book of gentle breaking and inventive reconstruction. A book of self and community carethe pursuit of building a world that will not only keep you alive but keep you joyful. Praise