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Golden Ax, September 2022
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GOLDEN AX
By: Rio Cortez

Penguin Poets
Penguin Books
September 2022
On Sale: August 30, 2022
80 pages
ISBN: 0143137131
EAN: 9780143137139
Kindle: B09MT3Q6NP
Paperback / e-Book
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Multicultural African-American

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as "Afropioneers" in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent, liberated futures.

In poems that range from wry, tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life to more nuanced meditations on her ancestors—some of the earliest Black pioneers to settle in the western United States after Reconstruction—Golden Ax invites readers to re-imagine the West, Black womanhood, and the legacies that shape and sustain the pursuit of freedom.