The Collection Plate: Poems Fiction_Gift_Guide At each stage of their

At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision

As the darkness keeps coming

goes to Temple

Sumter’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union

From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author

The Collection Plate: Poems Fiction_Gift_Guide At each stage of theirA deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and