If Not Now ...

by Anita Barrows

With If Not Now Anita Barrows posits that one cannot bear witness from a safe distance, that, to do it properly, one must join in the bloodletting. These poems foreground an oft-overlooked truth about structural violence-poverty, displacement, and police shootings. It is a bomb that detonates in our communities, whose blast radius extends well beyond the body lying lifeless in the street. They remind us that the only way to transcend...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639801375
• ISBN13: 9781639801374
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Kelsay Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"