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A message warns from beyond the grave: You must find the book

her body found the next morning in the old slave cemetery she spent her weekends rehabilitating

woke up no light Political Advocacy from a New York TimesA poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California woke up no light is a Black girls saunter turned to a womans defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from girlhood to neighborhood to falsehood to, finally,