Saida Agostini’s first full-length poetry collection, let the
dead in, is an exploration of the mythologies that seek to
subjugate Black bodies, and the counter-stories that reject such
subjugation. Audacious, sensual, and grieving, this work explores how
Black women harness the fantastic to craft their own road to freedom.
A journey across Guyana, London, and the United States, it is a
meditation on black womanhood, queerness, the legacy of colonization,
and pleasure. These poems craft a creation story fat with love,
queerness, mermaids, and blackness.
