CROSSFIRE: A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL general fiction The Essential Gwendolyn Brookstraces the

The Essential Gwendolyn Brookstraces the full arc of her career in all its ambitious scope and unexpected stylistic shifts

Zora Neal Hurston

the whole church trembles

” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Gripping

Deacon Thurgood (aka 'Thur-no-good') and put their two-year-old son

CROSSFIRE: A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL general fiction The Essential Gwendolyn Brookstraces thePowerhouse, world renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken word artist Staceyann Chin curates the first full length collection of her poems. Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist LGBTQ Caribbean, activist driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is "sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self mocking." The Advocate says that her poems, "combine hilarious one liners with a refusal to conform" and