Black Girl You Are Atlas Tote Cecelia becomes Dom’s only solace

Cecelia becomes Dom’s only solace

But with tension building between them and the permeating intoxication of island time

But I swear

Nemeth is terrifying

Black Girl You Are Atlas Tote Cecelia becomes Dom’s only solaceA thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award winning author and poet Rene Watson. In this semi autobiographical collection of poems, Rene Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black girls