Freedom House

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By KB Brookins

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Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. KB Brookins' debut full-length work uses diverse, music-influenced forms to delve into transness, body politics, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and afrofuturism. The poems chronicle the author's transition and invite readers to move through different "rooms," blending humour with poignant reflections on being Black, queer, and trans in Texas.

The collection asks profound questions about freedom, nature, identity, and the power of poetry as a means of building a liberated world for Black, queer, and trans people.
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This collection is suited to readers interested in contemporary poetry, LGBTQ+ themes, Black and trans experiences, and socially engaged art that blends personal narrative with broader cultural critique.

Description

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom.

In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins' formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and afrofuturism while chronicling their transition and walking readers through different "rooms". The speaker isn't afraid to call themselves out while also bending time, displaying the terror of being Black/queer/trans in Texas, and more—all while using humour and craft.

What does freedom look like? What can we learn from nature and our past? How do you reintroduce yourself in a world that refuses queerness? How can we use poetry as a tool in the toolbox that helps build freedom? This collection explores those questions and manifests a world where Black, queer, and trans people get to live.

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"Brookins's debut full-length collection explores what it really means to be free in America, particularly as a Black, queer, trans writer living in Texas; their writing style is urgent and timely while still holding space for the possibility of a life lived on one's own terms." —Emma Specter, Vogue

"KB Brookins's Freedom House is an unapologetic, forward-dreaming manifesto for a better, shared future." —Chaney Hill, Southern Review of Books

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781646052639

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 228.0mm

Height: 152.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 120

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Arts & Culture KB Brookins LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. Their chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the Saguaro Poetry Prize. KB's poems and essays are published in Poets.org, Huffington Post, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. They have earned fellowships from PEN America, Civil Rights Corps, and Lambda Literary among others. KB's debut memoir PRETTY (Alfred A. Knopf) will arrive in 2024, and they are a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts fellow. Follow KB online at @earthtokb.