“yrsa
daley-ward’s bone is a symphony of breaking and mending. . . . she
lays her hands on the pulse of the thing. . . . an expert
storyteller. of the rarest. and purest kind.” —nayyirah waheed,
author of salt.
From the
celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of poems about
the heart, life, and the inner self.
Foreword by Kiese
Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir
Bone. Visceral.
Close to. Stark.
The poems in Yrsa
Daley-Ward’s collection bone are exactly that: reflections on a
particular life honed to their essence—so clear and pared-down,
they become universal.
From navigating the
oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society’s
expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world;
from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation
black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and
abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and
loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in
love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward’s bone
resonates to the core of what it means to be human.
“You will come
away bruised.
You will come away
bruised
but this will give
you poetry.”
