A South Side Girl's Guide to Love & Sex: Poems

A South Side Girl's Guide to Love & Sex: PoemsAs a child of Puerto Rican migrants on Chicago's Southside, Mayda's Del Valle's poetry utilizes part Spanish and English, part hip hop and salsa, part Nas and Sonia Sanchez, part Shakespeare and John Leguizamo. It is inherited history as well as traditions remixed and invented. Del Valle creates autobiographical narratives that utilize spoken word poetry and music, intended equally for the page and live performance. Rooted in the aesthetics of hip hop

At just twenty-seven years old

Recipes like Dirty Cauliflower

As tensions build and the weight of centuries--of ancestors and future generations to come--culminates in a climactic reckoning

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry

The book culminates in Homeland

is the only person with whom she can truly be herself

" the iconic and loving ode to Black boyhood

Over the course of their few days together in the capital

this journal is complete with marbled endpapers

Visiting Martin Luther King Jr

Táíwò's analysis not only discourages despair

Toni decides to take a chance