Heavy Is the Head

by Sumaya Enyegue

Book Overview

"Where does all the grief go when it's not tugging at your wrist?" Enyegue's debut collection is an ode to girlhood, to Blackness, to generational trauma, sexual assault, and mental health.

This collection does not aim to heal anyone who reads it, but instead help them confront their own healing. Rather than sugar-coated bullets that enter you lightly, these poems are designed to hurt. They are for the girls with difficult names, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771682973
• ISBN13: 9781771682978
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Central Avenue Poetry
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.9"