Graphite: Patricia Frazier Kusama Branded On the Nadir watch

On the Nadir watch

”) In the Afro-Cuban context

20 bookmarks assembled into a small pull-out book

The stars belong in the deep night sky

Graphite: Patricia Frazier Kusama Branded On the Nadir watchPatricia Fraziers Graphite is an ode to her grandmother and childhood home, the Ida B. Wells Projects, both which the poet lost to city and state sanctioned discrimination. The chapbook investigates loss and gentrification, particularly their effects on black young people from Chicago, whose political movement, resilience, and ability to make celebration after pain, drive these poems. "Patricia Fraziers Graphite gathers us at the table and provides