I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series) Binding:Paperback author of American Born Chinese

author of American Born Chinese and Dragon Hoops

and I am speaking to you all

journalist

” —Claudia Tate

" a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul

I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series) Binding:Paperback author of American Born ChineseFor poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even