Black Girl You Are Atlas Mythology One of The Atlantic’s Great

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

a hard worker and a kind friend

These are the first Confessions

part pep talk

But as the trial unfolds

Black Girl You Are Atlas Mythology One of The Atlantic’s GreatA 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