PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Desiree C. Bailey is the author of the fiction chapbook In Dirt or Saltwater and has been published in Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets, Callaloo, and elsewhere. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and grew up in Queens, New York. Carl Phillips is the award-winning author of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Wild Is the Wind and Pale Colors in a Tall Field. This is his tenth and final year as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, sponsored by The National Book Foundation Longlisted for the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize Finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, sponsored by the Claremont Graduate School Named One of the Best Books of 2021 by the New York Public Library Longlisted for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize, sponsored by Swansea University Bailey invites us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological. -Carl Phillips, from the Foreword Desiree C. Bailey sings true in her debut What Noise Against the Cane. Wherever this voice goes a Caribbean sun travels with it transfiguring what a maroon might overhear-a call awaiting response. -Yusef Komunyakaa Bailey invites us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological. -Carl Phillips, from the Foreword -- Carl Phillips
