Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Een witte suite Amelia Rosselli

Amelia Rosselli

for many an indispensable poet

In Standard American English

all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text

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Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Een witte suite Amelia RosselliSawako Nakayasu In Sawako Nakayasus Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From an unsettling diaspora of girls is deployed as poetic form, as reclamation of diminutive pseudo slur, and as characters that take up residence between the thick border zones of language, culture, and shifting identity. Written in response to Nakayasus 2017 return to the US, this maximalist collection invites us to reexamine our own complicity in reinforcing conventions,